2,329 Quotes About Want

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written.

But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?

Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.

As I sat down, though, I realized that you can get 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 have pretty much everything we'd need but precious little else.

Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.

That's how it is with want. As long as you lack something you yearn for it without cease. if only I could have that one thing, you tell yourself, all my problems would be solved. But once you get it, once the object of your desires is thrust into your hands, it begins to lose its charm. Other wants assert themselves, other desires make themselves felt, and bit by bit you discover that you're right back where you started.

If you want to see a better world, change the lens through which you see it and do the work to make it better.

Know what you want and reach out eagerly for it.