348 Quotes About Wants

You have to know what people have been through to understand what people want and what they don't want. That's the nub of it. And what people have been through is what we call history.

For during life it is our wants, our hopes, our fears that enslave us.

Sometimes you can have everything you want but fail to achieve anything you need.

Don’t be the person the world wants you to be, be the person you want to be.

I’m not asking for much. A more tender worldwith less hatred strutting the streets.Perhaps a downtick in state-sanctioned violenceagainst civilians. Wind through the trees.Water under the bridge. Kindness.

Sometimes the thing that’s chasing me does so most effectively by leading me to believe that I’m chasing it.

A tension develops between what I want and what is emerging. This tension is important to the feeling of the piece.

Happiness asks nothing more.

It can feel heavy with longing, and heavy with longing, in my mind, is preferable to hollow, which one also feels. If I'm heavy with longing, at least I have some idea of what I want.