2,329 Quotes About Want

As long as I'm holding you, all of my dreams have already come true.

We were punished for doing what we wanted. With time our fear of punishment grew into a fear of wanting.

It's okay to want things, Cole. It's okay to go after them, too.

You can do whatever the heck you want to do. You can love whoever you want to love. You can be whoever you want to be, Anyone who says you can’t, no matter what religion or bullshit they are hiding behind, are only telling you that you can’t be you because they’re terrified of the freedom to be who they want to be.

What do you want?”The question stunned him. He could say he wanted nothing, that he felt like nothing, that he counted the days until darkness. Hecould say: Happiness beyond all worlds! A life of peace and love, entire and whole! He could say he wanted everything and nothing all at once. He thought for a moment, as the birds sang in the trees, of how often he felt like this.

Because we don’t ‘want’ God in no ways means that we don’t ‘need’ Him. And if we confuse the two, we might get what we want but we will die for lack of what we need.

I tell myself that I am what I need. But it is quite evident that what I need is what I’m not. And the greatest thing I’m not is God.

Most everything that I ‘need’ can be found in most everything that I threw away in my mad rush to get everything that I ‘wanted,’ for the eyes of greed are blind to the treasures of life.

An untrained mind usually focuses not on what one needs and has but on what one wants but lacks.