2,329 Quotes About Want

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking.

I love you. I want to do everything with you. I want to marry you and have kids with you and get old with you. And then I want to die the day before you do, so I never have to live without you.

Everybody really wanna be the best. I just wanna be a bit better than them.

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

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.

what you need and what you want aren't the same things,

Nothing makes you feel more naked than someone identifying a desire you never knew you possessed.

[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)