100 Quotes About Wanting

Everyone wants something. It could be a trip to the moon, a new toy, a great job, or even a new pair of shoes. What we want and why we want it is a huge part of our personality. We all have different dreams and aspirations, and many of them are beyond our reach, but that doesn’t stop us from wanting them Read more

Whether your desire is shiny and new or settled in the past, here are some great quotes about wanting to help get you started on your journey to fulfillment.

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If only you would realize some day, how much have you hurt me, If only your heart ever, craves for me or my presence… If only you feel that love again someday for me, If only you are affected someday by my absence… Only you can end all my suffering and this unbearable pain, If only you would know what you could never procure… If only you go through the memories of past once again, Since the day you left my heart has bled, no one has its cure… If only you would bring that love, those showers and that rain… If only you would come back and see what damage you create, I’ve been waiting for your return since forever more… If only you would see the woman that you have made, You said we cannot sail through, how were you so sure? If only you can feel the old things that can never fade, You may have moved on, but a piece of my heart is still with you… I know how I’ve come so far alone; I know how I’m able to wade, People say that I’m insane and you won’t ever come back again… Maybe you would have never made your separate way, Maybe you would have stayed with me and proved everyone wrong… If only you would know the pain of dying every day, If only you would feel the burden of smiling and being strong… . Mehek Bassi
It's not that I want you to go, it's just...
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It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay." - China Sorrows - Derek Landy
Part of being of a true existentialist is wanting to...
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Part of being of a true existentialist is wanting to be what we make ourselves be by the way we choose to act, as opposed to making excuses for the way we act and regretting it. Gary Cox
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To love is to think. And I almost forget to feel only from thinking about her. I don’t know what I want at all, even from her, and I don’t think about anything but her. I have a great animated distraction. When I want to meet her, I almost feel like not meeting her, So I don’t have to leave her afterwards. And I prefer thinking about her, because it’s like I’m afraid of her. I don’t know what I want at all, and I don’t want to know what I want. All I want to do is think about her. I’m asking nothing of nobody, not even her, except to think. Alberto Caeiro
Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy....
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Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing. Steve Maraboli
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Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough, you don't know that you live in a cheap lousy apartment. A cracked chair is nothing other than a chair. A dandelion growing out of a crack in the sidewalk outside your front door is a garden. You could believe that a song your parent was singing in the evening was the most tragic opera in the world. It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you. Heather ONeill
A house is never small or empty, when filled with...
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A house is never small or empty, when filled with love. Anthony Liccione
You want help? Ask for help. You want love? Ask...
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You want help? Ask for help. You want love? Ask for love. If you want anything from the universe, anything from yourself, you must first ask. Kamand Kojouri
The less you know, the more you will be known...
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The less you know, the more you will be known The less you want, the more you will have The less you are, the more you will be Vivian Amis
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The problem for a lot of people is that they don't really know what they want. They have vague desire: to 'do something creative' or to earn more money or 'to be free', but they can't really pin down what it is precisely that they want. So they drift from one thing to another, enjoying some moments and hating others, but never really finding fulfillment or success. (.)This is why it's hard to lead a successful life (whatever that means to you) when you don't know what you want. . John C. Parkin
The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with...
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The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts; it gives you what you demand with your actions. In essence, you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE. Steve Maraboli
There are three categories of people exist in the world;...
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There are three categories of people exist in the world; “the wanters”, “the wishers” and “the makers. Israelmore Ayivor
We can imprison ourselves with our wants, wishes, and false...
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We can imprison ourselves with our wants, wishes, and false dreams. Kilroy J. Oldster
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Rena noticed me watching it pass. 'You think they don't got problem?' Rena said. 'Everybody got problem. You got me, they got insurance, house payment, Preparation H.' She smiled, baring the part between her two upper teeth. 'We are the free birds. They want to be us. Janet Fitch
There are words in the soul of a newborn baby,...
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There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written. Toba Beta
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One thing we entirely forget when making decisions is the fact that the results concern and throw back to the decision maker not the one it seeks to please. Unarine Ramaru
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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. Dan Groat
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Everybody will get their wants, when they heartily want. Santosh Kalwar
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I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart–so hard, it hurt me. Sarah Waters
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He gazed into eyes the color of a summer morning sky and sighed. It felt as if his soul had just come home. Grace Willows
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You can live without many wants. Lailah Gifty Akita
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What I want is irrelevant. This is your life, Faith. Diane Samuels
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I would far prefer to be in someone's arms than jut in their head. D.S. Mixell
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You don’t need them. It’s that simple. But for some reason it’s complex. It’s difficult. It’s dangerous. We can’t seem to fathom it. Dominic Riccitello
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He opened his eyes to reveal the storm within him. “My every instinct is telling me to have my way with you.” He was dead serious and my cheeks heated. Fire shone in his eyes and I broke eye contact, burying my face into his cotton-covered chest. “But not nearly as difficult as going all this time without you, ” he said. Wendy Higgins
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You have to know what you want to ever be able to have it. Jewel
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The whole of my life I have relied on my beauty first, brains second. It was expected, even requested. But You saw right through me from the start. You are the only man I've ever known who has looked beyond my face and wanted to know me for me. And I find myself wanting you to know the whole me. Kristen Callihan
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Did you think I'd only want you once? Oh, my, you are more naïve than I thought. Why would I go through so much trouble for a mere tryst? Does a man ride a stallion but one time before condemning it to the abattoir? Nenia Campbell
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Did they love me? The question is beside the point, somehow. Certainly they each spoiled me, mainly by giving me the false impression that I was entitled to attention nearly all the the time. They played. THEY were like children, if you consider that one of the things about being a child is that you are a parasite of sorts and have to brazen out self-righteously. I want. They were good at wanting and I shared much more common ground with them than with my mother when I was three or four years old. Lorna Sage
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I wanted to shout down to him, to warn him that he was giving flowers to a monster, but I did not. Neil Gaiman
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My past lives alone. That's why my loneliness wants to live in the past Munia Khan
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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. Dan Groat
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You have to be selfish with who you are to stop wanting in your relationship with yourself. Unarine Ramaru
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Loving you is no more a beautiful memory, but now just a pain, I cry and weep every time I walk down the memory lane, Your love always completed me in every sense as a whole, But now it’s just emptiness and sorrow in my heart that drains, Of all the people in the world, you choose me to be hurt, Of all the hearts in the world, you choose mine to break… Why did you leave me I ask myself every morning and dawn? Why my love was incomplete tell me why you were gone? A silence surrounds my heart and fills it again with despair, Oh this pain is just too much, and the damage beyond repair, Please come back baby, just come back and bring that old smile, Or just come to see me every once in a while, So my heart no more bleeds, and no more my soul aches, So I can be peaceful after my death, in my ashes and burnt flakes… . Mehek Bassi
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Life shows us all colours, some bright and some shades of grey, Some accept with a smile, while some frown in every way Thoughts and memories never end but life does one day. Whole age passes by in wait of that old time to return, But those old days once gone, will never come back again, Rather we can just cherish them in the memories that burn, In the back of our mind and make us remember, How we used to be so crazy, In those old days… . Mehek Bassi
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A feeling struck me one fine day that people call ‘love’, Before that my life was empty, all I had was loneliness and sorrow… I loved the way it felt being with him, for I felt up above, Now everything was complete and nothing remained hollow… That person who cupid made me fall for, was a God descended from heavens, I loved him with all I had, a true heart and a pure soul… I thought I achieved the meaning of life, never did I felt so glad, But when he left me amidst a chaos, I had no one with me to console… I cried, it hurt, I wept and screamed, everyone called me ‘mad’, And still I wonder if in my life, that actually was his role… But a string still binds me to my past of untold vow, Some unsaid promises that linger between us even now, Although I don’t know where he went after that fateful day… I still try to convince myself every day, I know how, Each moment has been tough, each day a new challenge… Each hour passed as if it was my heart that always allowed, One more day to live without him, one more day to cherish… One more day to spend without the love of my life somehow, But he doesn’t know that one day, the girl herself would perish… Who loved him and lived each day of her life in his wait, For the man who never returned, for the man who wasn’t in her fate… . Mehek Bassi
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Who did I think we were.who did I think I could make you.this is the oldest mistake, to confuse wantingwith magic. silence is the undoingof every spell, and we are expertsin the unsaid. even now, I forgetto put us in past tense. as ifthe air in this city were the same.as if love is anything like its speaking. Unknown
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In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people. Judy Garland
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There are greater things than want and lust, Nerissa, " he whispered. "I can't afford those things. Sarah Brocious
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Everyone wanted what she couldn't have. Richelle Mead
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Always wanting another man than your own. Thomas Hardy
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It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with him before, hungry, wanting, desperate. It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with anyone before. This kiss was so soft that it was like a memory of a kiss, so careful on my lips that it was like someone running his fingers along them. Maggie Stiefvater
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It is the touch of a lover's arms that I so desperately crave, not the memories of a love no longer mine. D.S. Mixell
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I would far prefer to be in someone's arms than just in their head. D.S. Mixell
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If you hold on to what you want so tightly, it almost becomes an idol. Joel Osteen
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How do I tell her that all I want to do is roll around on my bed? Jolene Perry
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I wish I could fly. I wish I were rich. I wish I had more time.”“ But you can, and you are, and you do; I wish you would open your eyes. Richelle E. Goodrich
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Nothing grows in the shadow of want without the sunlight of acknowledging your fullness. Bryant McGill
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What we want for others doesn't work unless they want it for themselves. Bryant McGill
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I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward. Jamie Ford
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Paroxysms of pain and twinges of desire leach from universal sources. All human suffering buttons itself to the pang of wanting. Kilroy J. Oldster
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It is in the center of a stable self-love that you will find the confidence and safety you want. Bryant McGill
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Youngsters want to change world. Elders want to enjoy their works. The entrepreneur sells anything needed by both to win their desires. Toba Beta
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All love stories are frustration stories… To fall in love is to be reminded of a frustration that you didn’t know you had (of one’s formative frustrations, and of one’s attempted self-cures for them); you wanted someone, you felt deprived of something, and then it seems to be there. And what is renewed in that experience is an intensity of frustration, and an intensity of satisfaction. Adam Phillips
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Who ask don't getwho don't ask don't wantwho don't want don't getwho don't getdon't care Merle Hodge
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I'm extra-good at wanting things. I want things until I feel sort of sick about them. I want enough for two normal people, at least. Rainbow Rowell
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How can you possibly do everything you want to do in life if you start doing a bunch of things twice? Lorii Myers
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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is wanting. John Lubbock
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Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us downagain. Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn't mean we aredoomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of findingperfection. Then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won'tbe disappointed." If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. Butafter all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing- I wanted amountain high! A hill wasn't enough. From this day forward, I vowedto myself, I was in control of my life. Not fate, not God, not even Chris was ever again going to tell me what to do, ordominate me in any way. From this day forward, I was my own person, totake what I would, when I would, and I would answer only to myself. I'dbeen kept prisoner, held captive by greed. I'd been betrayed, deceived, tied to, used, poisoned. . but all that was over now. V.C. Andrews
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She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important. Patrick Rothfuss
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Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward – get real with yourself. Bryant McGill
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Healthy surrender means allowing yourself to "be" rather than being in a constant state of want. Bryant McGill
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Sometimes, we want what we want. Even if we know it's going to kill us. Trevor Driggers
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Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse. Holly Black
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But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world. Patrick Rothfuss
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Be careful what you wish for. It may turn out that making the wish was the only good part. Richelle E. Goodrich
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No misery compares to staring at a clear night's sky with arms stretched toward a coveted star, wishing on what is forever out of reach. Richelle E. Goodrich
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Be not wishing and pining but thankfully content.  For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret."- from "Dimpellumpzki Richelle E. Goodrich
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According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand. Chuck Palahniuk
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Why am I impatient I am unsure for what is patience? And why should I ultimately feel that I am lacking in it. Is it timing? Waiting? Abstaining? Obligation? Longing? Torture? Perseverance? Discipline? Wanting? Someone recently referred to it as a staring contest between yourself, fate, god and chance. He also referred to it as a tease, a flirt. It's staring at her image when you want to hear her voice, feel her breath, taste her skin. Patience is the recovery from a really hot dream interrupted by the damn alarm clock. Patience is a hard cock with bound hands. LEONORA MORRISON
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Surviving is about need. Living is about want. Dan Groat
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Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for. Laura Lippman
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Some of you may feel that if you don't do something soon to change your life, you will be left by the roadside, alone, homeless and in despair. But is the despair not there as you reach and grapple to create or manifest your desires through your own effort and will? What happens if or when those things appear in your life? Joy? Peace? Or a temporary sense of relief? What if it is relief from the wanting you have been craving for so long, not the outcome, but the relief from the constant wanting. Unknown
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As Colin was starting to drift into the twilight he could feel blood pouring out of his head Unknown
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From that first moment of doubt, there was no peace for her; from the time she first imagined leaving her forest, she could not stand in one place without wanting to be somewhere else. She trotted up and down beside her pool, restless and unhappy. Unicorns are not meant to make choices. She said no, and yes, and no again, day and night, and for the first time she began to feel the minutes crawling over her like worms. . Peter S. Beagle
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Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. I feel it so much that I am water, a river of want, pooled in the shape of a girl. Ally Condie
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Wanting and wishing are very different Jonathan Friesen
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The subjects range from the pastoral (sniffing of the butt of a melon to tell if it's ripe. and almost romantically lush descriptions of lightening storms sweeping across fields on summer nights) to elaborations on the value of man's having a life of his own, apart from whatever life he has with his family, a private life that no one knows anything about, "a place he can be himself without concern of disappointment or rejection". A.M. Homes
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You think it can't get worse than wanting someone and not having them, but it can. You can want someone, have them, and want them more. Still. Always. You can never get enough. Michelle Hodkin
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Frogs, ducks, rhinos, octopuses — whatever you desire. The world will be built new for you every morning. If you stay here, you can have whatever you want.’ Coraline sighed. ‘You really don’t understand, do you?’ she said. ‘I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted? Just like that, and it didn’t mean anything. What then? . Neil Gaiman
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Everyone says that hope is the feeling that something desirable is likely to happen which gives people the expectation that something good would occur. But the thing is, people hope for something. They only HOPE for that certain thing. For what is that hope that people say if they wouldn't take action to make that hope happened. It's just like wanting something or someone but not doing anything to have them. Unknown
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Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us. Donna Tartt
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I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want. Stanley Kubrick
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We get so beat down by what we need, sometimes we forget how to want. Dan Groat
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If you want more from life – start by counting your blessings instead of counting your losses, deficits and wants. Bryant McGill
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It wasn’t as if she’d thought it through or anything, how what a person wanted wasn’t always what they needed, and what a person needed might be the last thing they could ever want. Shannon Celebi
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Why couldn't someone , somewhere , want her for her ? Sarah MacLean
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Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want. Wayne Gerard Trotman
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I realized that you can get so used to certain luxuries that you start to think they’re necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you don’t need them after all. There was a big difference between needing things and wanting things–though a lot of people had trouble telling the two apart–and at the ranch, I could see, we’d have pretty much everything we’d need but precious little else. Jeannette Walls
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I might not yet be falling in love, but I might be flirting with the promise of love, the idea of love, the making of a place in my heart for love, though it may have been more a wish than a promise. Diane Meier
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The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being." I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition. Maggie Stiefvater
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It's always times like these when I think of you and I wonder if you ever think of me. Vanessa Carlton
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When you are constantly waiting and wanting your declaration is that you are NOT. Bryant McGill
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But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness. Cassandra Clare
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You have to be smart to get what you want. Bryant McGill
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In the end, everything is found to be wanting. Frank Lentricchia
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Good film, television, or music keeps you awake, anxious for the next movement or act, and wanting more when it is finished. John Grooters
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Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are different. Blake Lively
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I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary. Albert Camus
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Music is all about wanting to be better at it. Geddy Lee