Top 56 Wanting What You Have Quotes
#1. It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you have!
Sheryl Crow
#2. Contentment is wanting what you have. Ambition is wanting what another has. Progress comes from wanting what nobody has.
Bob Lewis
#3. Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have.
Sheryl Crow
#4. Focus Not on Having Less or Having More, But on Wanting What You Have.
Gretchen Rubin
#5. Satisfaction isn't so much getting what you want as wanting what you have.
David Myers
#6. Happiness does not consist in having what you want, but in wanting what you have
Confucius
#7. Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.
Beverly Lewis
#10. Happiness comes not from having more, not from having less, but from wanting what you have.
Gretchen Rubin
#11. You know, wanting what you have is supposedly the secret of happiness.
Jean Hanff Korelitz
#12. Can I tell you what I want? I want to stop wanting things I can't have. I want to stop falling for jerks I don't need. And I want to stop feeling like an f/ing gooey butter cake somebody left out in the rain.
Kate Klise
#13. As a producer, what you want to do is make the next hit. But you also want to lead the audience into wanting to watch different movies. You have to vary your content.
Michelle Yeoh
#14. Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting.
Carolyn Hax
#15. You will never stop wanting more until you allow yourself to have what you already have. To take it in. Savor it. Now is a good time to do that ...
Geneen Roth
#16. You have to know what you want to ever be able to have it.
Jewel
#17. My advice to young people wanting to make music and to be in this industry is to really spend your time making music. Make so much music you have no friends. Make music. Figure out what it is you love, and ... because if you're making cool art, then everything else will fall into line.
Lorde
#18. The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination - what do you dream of wanting to do?
Amanda Lindhout
#19. I seem to have been able to make a career out of doing what I feel like doing, so why not keep doing it? What's corrupting is wanting to be more important. You want to be more arty - you get your identity from that. Or you get your identity out of making more money.
Jane Campion
#20. Since ever the world was spinning And till the world shall end You've your man in the beginning Or you have him in the end, But to have him from start to finish And neither nor borrow nor lend Is what all of the girls are wanting And none of the gods can send
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#21. 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
#22. Be careful about wanting what others have. There is always a price. Perhaps God didn't give it to you, because He knew you wouldn't be able to pay it.
Yasmin Mogahed
#23. My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can't have and wanting what you shouldn't want. And I shouldn't want you.
Cassandra Clare
#24. There's a special joy you get having a show on the air that people are interested in and wanting to know what happens next. You really want to enjoy that while you have it.
Ronald D. Moore
#25. Wanting more than you can have will spoil what you've got.
Robert B. Parker
#26. It's the fuel for everything our people have done to each other since the beginning. That's what makes peace seem impossible. How can you blame someone for wanting to kill the killer of their loved ones? How can you fault people for what they do in grief?
Laini Taylor
#27. Maybe it was because I didn't want to look at my life and see what is missing. Once you identify what you lack, then it's all you see anymore. Wanting something I couldn't have would only lead to unhappiness, so I tried to be content with what I had.
Lisa Mangum
#28. He wanted to make her laugh. He wanted to sit and listen to her talk about books until his ears fell off. 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
#29. It's the balance between wanting the power of electronics and having something real happening - if you want people to engage in what you're doing, I think that's important. I want to have fun with people, but that's hard to do with a laptop.
Anna Meredith
#30. You should never have to convince someone into loving you and wanting to be with you. You deserve to see someone who can easily see what's special in you.
Karen Salmansohn
#31. 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
#32. The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.
Paul Fleischman
#33. You can be happy instantly by wanting what you already have.
Bob Schwartz
#34. I've been trying not to think about the things I wanted but couldn't have.
I figured life must be about what you can't have.
Some part of me has given up wanting anything.
Why? I'm human, aren't I?
Even though I knew that this was pointless.
Why did I fall in love?
Kou Yoneda
#35. I think one of the big issues with, you know, people who have strong faith in addition to competing is that conflict between accepting things the way they are, and wanting to compete and get better, and at what point are you in the right balance.
Tom Lehman
#36. I'll be honest with you. I'm a little bit of a loner. It's been a big part of my maturing process to learn to allow people to support me. I tend to be very self-reliant and private. And I have this history of wanting to work things out on my own and protect people from what's going on with me.
Kerry Washington
#37. And I know -I just know- you can remind me what it feels like to have someone look at me and love me with wanting me to be something else.
Amy Reed
#38. Never give anyone the satisfaction of denying you something you need, and for that, what you have to do is to learn to need nothing. Starve the wanting part of you.
Dorothy Allison,
"Mama"
Trash
Dorothy Allison
#39. You must watch and wait, Branza, to see what powers you have and don't have. It is not like home. We ruled there. Everything fell into place around what we wanted. Here, we are not the only ones wanting, and we must make room for other people's desires.
Margo Lanagan
#40. You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing.
Gil Scott-Heron
#41. You can be very independent, but admit to wanting somebody close to you and that's what me and my wife have. We don't need each other but we want to be with each other and I think it's important to educate the kids with that.
Boris Kodjoe
#42. For me, acting goes to a special place; it's almost mystical. You have to let go of what you think is good; it's a jump into trust, and trying to reach without wanting too much.
Juliette Binoche
#43. Be ambitious, Spend time wanting, pursuing, wishing. Chase things with passion. Dream but never let the chase diminish what you already have.
Unknown
#44. The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.
Steven Soderbergh
#46. Love is having. Desire is wanting. And you can want only what you don't already have.
Emily Nagoski
#47. Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.
Judith Viorst
#48. Fantasies don't have to make any sense," he snapped. "That's what makes them fantasies. They aren't meant to be logical, they're meant to keep you from losing your mind or panicking or wanting to kill yourself.
Michael Grant
#49. Nothing's ever going to change my love for you. Well, at least as long as I keep wanting what I can't have.
Kate McGahan
#50. Oh, was that what you meant? I figured you were speaking of your manner of whoring. I should have known you were wanting to fuck me too.
Sai Marie Johnson
#51. Paroxysms of pain and twinges of desire leach from universal sources. All human suffering buttons itself to the pang of wanting.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#52. You get a pretty good read by watching the play, and knowing what you would have done - having done most of the things that these guys are accused of doing. I put myself in their shoes: Would I have been wanting to send a message? Is it a hockey play that went a little sideways?
Chris Pronger
#53. 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
#54. Privately, I consider religion to be a load of bollocks, but when you have a sobbing five year old wanting to know what happened to her hamster, you develop an instant belief in anything that dissolves some of the heartbreak off her face.
Tana French
#55. But all the wanting in the world, her mother reminded her, will leave you with exactly what you have.
Alexander Maksik
#56. I love acting because you don't have to do the same thing over and over again, every day, and that's what attracted me to wanting to do this for a living. So to be given an opportunity to create something completely different and live that out is the dream. It's incredibly rewarding.
Jennifer Morrison
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