Quotes About Wants And Desires

#1. He was everything I needed because his entire character had been molded by my deepest wants and desires. He was my rock when I cried, my playmate when I laughed, and my hero when I needed to imagine that one existed for me.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#2. We have no need to learn to think much of ourselves, to care for ourselves, to consider our own needs, wants, and desires. We already do that far too much. The problem is getting us to think of others, to have a lowliness of mind that springs from humility and love.

Nancy Wilson

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

James Russell Lowell

#4. In the states we all have this idea, everyone who wants to be the next best singer, next best dancer. Those same wants and desires are in India, too.

Parvesh Cheena

#5. Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

David Heinemeier Hansson

#6. Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven
by the characters' wants and desires.

Robert Gregory Browne

#7. So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.

Thom Mayne

#8. Just because you married doesn't mean you're not an individual person with your own wants and desires and needs.

Joe Swanberg

#9. Intrinsically, I'm the same person I was as a young lad, and I think I still have the optimism of life, still the same wants and desires to be good and great about what I do.

Pierce Brosnan

#10. Make a list of your current wants and desires. Next to each, put down what benefit or payoff there would be when you achieve it. Look at this list often throughout the day and before retiring at night.

Denis Waitley

#11. 2.27 THE ULTIMATE
With compassion and renunciation walking,
With wants and desires ever shedding,
With love within one's heart flowing,
Peace and Divinity shall never be wanting.
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Munindra Misra

#12. Her safety, needs, wants and desires would always be the most important things to him. She was the center of his universe and he would protect her at all cost.

Julia Mills

#13. Submission doesn't mean weakness; it means exploring your wants and desires and being strong enough to give control of yourself to someone else.

Melinda Barron

#14. Never be in thrall to anyone but your own wants and desires, because only you can make yourself happy. Fly your own flag, and be true to it. Your soul is the true captain.

Billy Idol

#15. Selfish needs, wants, and desires needed to be obliterated. Greed, overindulgence, and gluttony had to be expunged from human behavior. The solution was in self-control, in minimalism, in sparse living conditions; one simple and a brand-new dictionary filled with words everyone would understand.

Tahereh Mafi

#16. What my wife desires--and what you should have guessed, had you paid attention--is bookcases. And books, of course, to fill them. Not more decorations or useless items. She wants books.

Cynthia Hand

#17. The Lord is in all of our lives. He loves us. He wants to bless us. He wants us to seek His help. As He guides us and directs us and as He hears and answers our prayers, we will find the happiness here and now that He desires for us. May we be aware of His blessings in our lives.

Thomas S. Monson

#18. He didn't say anything and I thought I'd shocked him, because I tend to do that. Not just with Michael but with pretty much anyone who can't deal with being honest and admitting that you have wants and needs and desires and all those other fun things.

Sarra Manning

#19. One wants to be loved, in lack thereof admired, in lack thereof feared, in lack thereof loathed and despised. One wants to instill some sort of emotion in people. The soul trembles before emptiness and desires contact at any price.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#20. The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model-whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home.

Bruce Barton

#21. If you ignore what a man desires, and you deny the very source of his power.

Walter Lippmann

#22. When you submit yourself to God and obey Him, you allow Him to do what He desires in your life. You make it possible for Him to lead you wherever He wants to use you.

Jim George

#23. Everyone can be awesome if they want it bad enough. And I don't believe that anyone wants to be average. I think everybody desires greatness, at least at some point in their life.

Jason Ellis

#24. The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and needs are. If people's stated desires were just some kind of erasable inscription or reprogrammable brainwashing, any atrocity could be justified.

Steven Pinker

#25. The ability to last in motherhood requires giving up expectations for our own lives, deciding that sacrificing our desires and wants for the sake of our family is our gift of worship to our heavenly Father. To

Sarah Mae

#26. When you're following your dreams, you quickly learn who wants you to succeed and who desires to see you fail. Pay attention and stay focused on what's important.

Delano Johnson

#27. Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#28. Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease ... and throw himself into roils and labors.

Immanuel Kant

#29. God desires to have such a close and intimate relationship with Him, and He wants to be the first place you go to and be your place of peace and rest.

Chloe M. Gooden

#30. As utterly irrational as it might seem, the greed within me has the most limited vision I can possibly imagine as it has eyes only for the few things it doesn't have, and it is completely blind to all the many remarkable things that it does.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#31. I was born a heretic. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. Susan B. Anthony, U.S. reformer and suffragist

George Washington

#32. No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

Jeremy Taylor

#33. The Spirit filters through what I want and shows me who I am.

E'yen A. Gardner

#34. It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry.

Andrew Schneider

#35. A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Barbara Cartland

#36. The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him-and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.

J. Paul Getty

#37. I hated him, loved him, wanted him, and yet I wished him away. So many conflicting emotions of wants and needs. So much fear. Not because of him, but because of myself - of how deep my feelings and desires were running, and how much I would fall if I happened to lose my grip.

J.C. Reed

#38. 'Gillespie and I' is a deliciously morbid, almost smutty story, a compendium of inappropriate wants and smarmy desires.

Carolyn See

#39. Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people 'feel' heard. They 'feel' that someone really understands their wants, needs and desires. And for good reason; a good listener does care to understand.

Simon Sinek

#40. The universe wants you to succeed. So listen to her deep driving desires and be a great success.

Debasish Mridha

#41. All of your desires, wants, or preferences emanate from you naturally and constantly, for you stand at the Leading Edge of a Universe that makes that so.

Esther Hicks

#42. Human desire is an unlimited and boundless ocean, a body of water which can never be filled. If we make our wants and our desires for status our financial mission, we are doomed to fail from the start, because just as we think we have made it, there is always another hill to climb.

Erik Wecks

#43. Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

Joyce Meyer

#44. I love him whose soul is lavish, who wants no thanks and does not give back: for he always gives, and desires not to keep for himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#45. God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.

Johannes Tauler

#46. When you have what you want (inner peace), you are less distracted by your wants, needs, desires, and concerns. It's thus easier to concentrate, focus, achieve your goals, and to give back to others.

Richard Carlson

#47. It is my observation that all human hearts are the same and that their ultimate desire is also the same. This soul wants happiness, perfect and pure happiness, because only then will all desires end. As long as desire exists misery exists, because with desire there can be no peace.

Rajneesh

#48. I feel the same about love; that there is a world of difference between the love that one gives - or wants to give - and the love that one desires, or receives.

Eleanor Catton

#49. Only when you are being yourself, can you love someone or be with him or her truly. Honour your own wants, desires and dreams. Trust your own taste, judgements and choices before you can share yourself with anyone.

Malti Bhojwani

#50. God hears and sees you. He knows your deepest desires, and wants to fulfill them. But sometimes we just have to be patient.

Chloe M. Gooden

#51. Now, as an adult, my hopes for the future were simple: I wanted to be alone, and to be surrounded by flowers. It seemed, finally, that I might get exactly what I wanted.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#52. There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, he wants me as his friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given his Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose.

J.I. Packer

#53. You can put off your dreams, your desires, your careers, your farms. You can avoid your responsibilities, obligations, promises, and sovereign rights. But any person who wants to make music, and doesn't, is a goddamned fool.

Jenna Woginrich

#54. We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fact."
"And like everyone who's had enough," said Control as Alleline noisily left the room, "he wants more.

John Le Carre

#55. If you don't know what you want, you'll never find it.
If you don't know what you deserve, you'll always settle for less.
You will wander aimlessly, uncomfortably numb in your comfort zone, wondering how life has ended up here.
Life starts now, live, love, laugh and let your light shine!

Rob Liano

#56. Unhappiness is the resultant of what you desire and happiness of what you don't.

Amit Abraham

#57. The better you understand the beliefs, actions, desires, and wants of others, the more likely you are to make the right response, alter your own thinking where necessary and generally be successful.

Richard Templar

#58. Quality of Life is simply varying perceptions of desires and outcomes, a grocer wants life to give him lemons. A C Quinn.

A.C. Quinn

#59. Life is a piece of art drawn by love on the canvas of hope with the colors of desires, wants, and needs.

Debasish Mridha

#60. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed, and still kept within the bounds of reason. If a person learns to control his instinctual desires, not because he has to, but because he wants to, he can enjoy himself without becoming addicted. A

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#61. Family," she whispered. "So many people go through their lives with blinders on. They become self-involved and only want to think about their wants and their desires. They don't leave room for anything else, and then, too late, they realize how important their families were.

Julie Garwood

#62. The key to lasting happiness and real pleasure in this world is not found in seeking gratification, but in pleasing God. And while the Lord desires that we enjoy His gifts and the people to whom we are joined, He wants us to know that we were created first for His pleasure.

Francis Frangipane

#63. People often say women want to be loved. But they really want much more. Many women want to bear children; and their very being wants to give children life. She often desires men just as a key to the child that is in her to give life to.

Kahlil Gibran

#64. If you're as intelligent as I think, you'll back away and give him time to examine his true desires. He's so busy fulfilling everyone else's; he has no idea what he wants."
"I've been under the impression that he wanted me," Billie said coldly, "or I wouldn't be here.

Shelby Reed

#65. I think that you have to restrain yourself from googling your name and have other hobbies and desires and wants. You do a million things. You go to school, you write, you read, you blog.

Mila Kunis

#66. Our mind has evolved in such a way that new wants keep appearing in it relentlessly. But do not confuse them with needs. Needs are necessity, but wants are luxury.

Abhijit Naskar

#67. There is, I came to realize, what the mind wants and what the body wants. The mind can excite the body, but its desires can also be false; whereas the body, the animal, wants what it wants.

Claire Messud

#68. Higgins: I'm an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance, to live exactly as he likes, and do precisely what he wants. An average man am I, of no eccentric whim, Who likes to live his life, free of strife Doing whatever he thinks is best for him, Well, just an ordinary man

Rex Harrison

#69. We are all lies waiting for the day when we will break free from our cocoon and become the beautiful truth we waited for.

Shannon L. Alder

#70. Suffering is having what you do not want, and wanting what you do not have. However, suffering is minimized when we equalize our desires to fit our circumstances. Subtract our wants, and we will be closer to contentment.

Joni Eareckson Tada

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

Amy Neftzger

#72. I put my head out of my window and see how much the wind's knife wants to slice it off. On this unseen guillotine, I've placed the eyeless head of all my desires.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#73. Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.

Maxwell Maltz

#74. Prices impose the most effective kind of rationing - self-rationing. Why is rationing necessary? Because what everybody wants always adds up to more than there is ... Resources are limited but desires are not. That is the basic and defining problem of economics.

Thomas Sowell

#75. There is a difference between what you want, and what you need.

Abhijit Naskar

#76. Think of it." Now he is speaking to you, no one but you. "It may not matter what we want for science, or what we think is ethical. All we must do is provide the right environment, and let the heart do what it desires. The heart wants to beat.

Stephen Kiernan

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

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

Olaotan Fawehinmi