Quotes about wants

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Dating isn't a natural need it is a social want.

Christian D. Larson -

Life becomes the way it is lived and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.

Sunday Adelaja -

God wants to create something new on this earth something that nobody has ever known or seen until now

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

I can only hope and pray for God to supply my every need!

Dan Groat - Monarchs and Mendicants

If all you do is think about what you need, you’re no better than an animal in the woods, and no smarter either. To be human, you’ve got to want. It makes you smarter and stronger.

Sunday Adelaja -

We limit ourselves and God who wants to work through us

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Whatever you want, you must have the desire to work for it.

Lailah Gity Akita -

If we learn to live with few wants, we shall forever be happy.

Francis Chan -

The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.

Prem Prakash - The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras

Relinquishing selfish wants, one is free to allow others to travel their own paths under the will of God. (18)

Anthony T. Hincks -

We don't live as God intended us to, but we live as the Devil wants us to.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

If God has given us life, He is capable of any other thing.

Amy Poehler -

It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.

Jodi Picoult - Handle with Care

What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.

Santosh Kalwar -

Everybody will get their wants, when they heartily want.

Sunday Adelaja -

God is always creating something new, He wants to give us new information and reveal to us new secrets in order to exalt us over this world

Sunday Adelaja -

God wants to show the advantage of His kingdom to the world, but He will not do this without us

Sunday Adelaja -

God wants to take care of us, raise us up and direct us in life

Sunday Adelaja -

God wants us to do everything according to His plan

Sunday Adelaja -

God wants us to move persistently towards His goals

Shannon L. Alder -

Maybe, it wasn't stuck in my mind. Maybe,just maybe, it was stuck in my heart for so long that it grew wings and wanted to fly, but didn't know how.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

In this life, only one thing is needful ; God's grace.

Shannon L. Alder -

When people hurt it is because they feel they are going to lose something. The questions to ask is: What?

Jean Baudrillard -

Take your desires for reality!" can be understood as the ultimate slogan of power.

Jean Baudrillard - Simulacra and Simulation

The only weapon of power, its only strategy against this defection, is to reinject the real and the referential everywhere, to persuade us of the reality of the social, of the gravity of the economy and the finalities of production.

Carew Papritz - his Final Gift

Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life's time to both.

Jean Baudrillard - Simulacra and Simulation

The media represents world that is more real than reality that we can experience. People lose the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. They also begin to engage with the fantasy without realizing what it really is.They seek happiness and fulfilment through the simulacra of reality, e.g. media and avoid the contact/interaction with the real world.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

If you have life, smile and pursue life! Don’t keep your smile; keep smiling! We only need just one great thing in life, and that is life! All else are mere wants to gratify and beautify life. The real beauty of life is in having life and knowing what real life is all about!

Fulton J. Sheen - Life Is Worth Living

Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.

Temitope Owosela -

Hope and faith goes hand-in-hand, because without hope there is no faith. The same goes with want and needs, without any wants, there no need to have a need

Daniel Willey -

Too often, we put up with mediocrity, telling ourselves that later in life we’ll do what we want.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Maintain a persistent focus of what you want

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

You will know those who love you, when you are in need.

Dan Groat - An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

It’s a funny thing, one day you’re living and the next day you’re not sometimes, whether you have plans or not. Wishes and wants get trumped by the reaper every time. I don’t even know if I would want a warning if it was my time. I think I’d rather be surprised.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

In a society that prioritizes man’s health, a cleaner is more important than a lawyer.

Shannon L. Alder -

God doesn't hand you an easy life because you will grow in it. He hands you a dream with hurdles, obstacles, setbacks, battles and challenges because he knows the real you is at the finishing line.

Ariel Levy - The Rules Do Not Apply

I wanted what we all want: everything. We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising. We want to be youthful adventurers and middle-aged mothers. We want intimacy and autonomy, safety and stimulation, reassurance and novelty, coziness and thrills. But we can’t have it all.

Dan Pearce - Single Dad Laughing

Once your past no longer has the power to define you, your future is, quite literally, yours for the taking. Every single beautiful thing you could possibly want or imagine will be yours.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

Insofar as there shall always be a desire, there shall always be a want and there shall always be a need

Hayley DiMarco -

The life of less, one bent on simplicity, and not needing or wanting anything other than what God has deemed good for you turns out to be all you could ever need or want.

Sunday Adelaja -

Whenever God wants to intervene in the affairs of the earth, he intervenes through light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom

Lailah Gifty Akita -

God's grace is our greatest need.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Wish for what you want.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

With patient and persistent, we possess what we want.

Shannon L. Alder -

You will never find peace when the need you cling to is not the want you desire. But when does a want become a need... when it is all you think about?

Lailah Gifty Akita -

So many wants distract man from his divine purpose.

Shannon L. Alder -

What you value at the highest level needs to be in alignment with your partner or you will have conflict.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

God gives the most essential need.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

To live without your want is the grace of contentment.

Lisa Wingate - The Sandcastle Sister

Everything you want waits on the other side of fear.

Richard Castle -

It's so funny castle, you know, at first I loved that he was so busy. It just, it just gave me the opportunity to keep one foot out the door just on case.But with one foot out the door, it's hard to know where you stand. And even if I did what does it mean?

Billie Jean King -

If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.

Tupac Shakur -

America wants its respect.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

What is needful is necessary.

Robert Skidelsky Edward Skidelsky - How Much is Enough?: Money and the Good Life

Experience has taught us that material wants know no natural bounds, that they will expand without end unless we consciously restrain them. Capitalism rests precisely on this endless expansion of wants. That is why, for all its success, it remains so unloved. It has given us wealth beyond measure, but has taken away the chief benefit of wealth: the consciousness of having enough.

Olaotan Fawehinmi - The Soldier Within

If you don't need what you really want, you can barely want what you really need.

Kashish Gurung -

Over-thinking, a devouring monster,entice, only the inky reflections;there's a pleasure you come by,from this anomalous encounter;kills your desire, for human affection.

David Levithan - Every Day

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

Nenia Campbell - Black Beast

We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.

Debasish Mridha -

Happiness is there where wants and needs are small, but the desire to give is big.

Gary Shteyngart - Little Failure

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

Steve Maraboli - Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Each day brings a fresh opportunity for you to set the standard of how dedicated and committed you are to your needs, wants, goals, and relationships.

Sarah Dessen -

So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

Christmas embodies everything that I need. However, everything that I need is often made up of a lot of stuff I don’t want.

Tom Robbins -

Science gives man what he needs.But magic gives him what he wants.

Munindra Misra - Eddies of Life

2.27 THE ULTIMATEWith compassion and renunciation walking,With wants and desires ever shedding,With love within one’s heart flowing,Peace and Divinity shall never be wanting.[158] - 2

Craig Groeschel - Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.

Deyth Banger - Deep Legend

Adrenaline wants to kill you...

Craig Groeschel - Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.

Matt Damon -

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

Iain M. Banks - Matter

In life you hoped to do what you could but mostly you did what you were told and that was the end of it.

J.D. Jordan - Calamity: Being an Account of Calamity Jane and Her Gunslinging Green Man

what I like and what I need’s two different things.

Dan Groat - Monarchs and Mendicants

Surviving is about need. Living is about want.

Kemi Sogunle -

The moment you learn to separate your wants from your needs, your vision becomes clearer.

Jack Lessenberry -

Sometimes it seems that everybody in the world is in favor of democracy, just as long as it gives them the result they want.

Leot Felton -

…our world did not fall because we did not believe in fairness… our world fell because it could no longer support the enormous weight we had put upon it, in the name of fairness.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

God’s grace is our greatest need.

Sunday Adelaja -

God wants to use His Church to establish His Kingdom on the earth.

Felix Wantang - Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 3: Revealing the End of the Age

God is only interested in fulfilling your needs, not your wants; learn to successfully weed out your wants from your needs. Matthew 6:8

Amy Neftzger - The Orphanage of Miracles

It doesn’t take objectivity to know what you want, and you’re not objective enough to know what you need.

Thiruman Archunan -

If a woman does not want she actually wants, if she wants she certainly wants it!

Shannon L. Alder -

You can ignore your heart and mind, but it will always find its way home.

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants.

James Russell Lowell -

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

John Steinbeck -

No one wants advice - only corroboration.

Richard Dawkins -

I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.

Blaise Pascal -

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Karl Lagerfeld -

No one wants to see curvy women.

Nancy Gibbs -

Barack Obama wants teacher service scholarships.

Katherine Catmull - The Radiant Road

...said Finn...“Only remember, Clare. In a dream, what you want will come out, one way or the other. ”“So . . . So I should be careful about what I want, then, right?”“No, you can’t be careful with what you want. Wanting isn’t a pet who stays at your heels; it’s a wild animal. You must become friendly with it. It will make an offer, and you will respond. Converse with what you want that way.”“So what should I try to want? What should I look for?”“Never look for what you should want and desire, b

Alexandra Potter - Be Careful What You Wish For

consider the implications. We think we know what we want, but we can never really know until we've got it. And sometimes when we have, we discover we never really wanted it in the first place - but then it's too late

Leigh Bardugo - Ruin and Rising

(...)And what did I want? (...)A chance to sleep easy in my bed without fear. (...) There were old wants too, to be loved for who I was, not what I could do, to lie in a meadow with a boy's arms around me and WATCH THE WIND MOVE THE CLOUDS. (...)

Lailah Gifty Akita -

You can get what you want.

A.W. Tozer -

It may be said without qualification that every man is as holy and as full of the Spirit as he wants to be. He may not be as full as he wishes he were, but he is most certainly as full as he wants to be.

Debbie Macomber - Twenty Wishes

Sometimes, I think we're afraid to admit we want certain things. Especially things that contradict the image we have of ourselves.

Gillian Shields - DogFish

Well, if you can't have what you want, you could try to want what you have.

Antwi Isaac - BORN2WIN. -

Maturity is when we can differentiate between our wants and needs and treat them as such.

Antwi Isaac BORN2WIN -

Maturity is when we differentiate between our wants and needs and treatment them as such.

Cheryl Drake Harris - Lily's Ghost

I wanted blood to signify life, not death.

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