184 Quotes About Wanting






  • Author Christina Baker Kline
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    When I think about what would make me happy, I am struck by how basic my desires are. I want to feel that I'm progressing through life; I want a meaningful relationship and an engaging career. I want to live in a place that feels like home. What I want is what everyone wants - so ordinary as to be cliched. Why is that so hard to find?

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  • Author Jack Canfield
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    Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

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  • Author Cassandra Clare
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    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.

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  • Author Augusten Burroughs
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    Are you one of those people who says on a first date, 'I'm really not in a hurry to meet somebody, I figure if it happens, it happens'? Because those are the most desperate people of all. I'm just saying this so that if you are this person, you aren't hiding it from anybody.There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

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