184 Quotes About Wanting

Be not wishing and pining but thankfully content.  For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret."- from "Dimpellumpzki

Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want.

The subjects range from the pastoral (sniffing of the butt of a melon to tell if it's ripe. and almost romantically lush descriptions of lightening storms sweeping across fields on summer nights) to elaborations on the value of man's having a life of his own, apart from whatever life he has with his family, a private life that no one knows anything about, "a place he can be himself without concern of disappointment or rejection".

Rena noticed me watching it pass. 'You think they don't got problem?' Rena said. 'Everybody got problem. You got me, they got insurance, house payment, Preparation H.' She smiled, baring the part between her two upper teeth. 'We are the free birds. They want to be us.

The less you know, the more you will be knownThe less you want, the more you will haveThe less you are, the more you will be

Whatever the case, we want to change things around us. Because we want to matter, and we believe that our work makes us matter. The work isn't the end, it's the means for what we really want: to matter.

She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.

Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing.

megan once told me that happiness is getting exactly what you want, but she thinks it's only what she wants that counts.