348 Quotes About Wants

Although I am convinced otherwise, what I ‘want’ empties me of all that I could ever need, while what I ‘need’ fills me with all that I could ever want. It’s just that I tend to have that all backwards most of the time, so I am empty all of the time.

Our mind has evolved in such a way that new wants keep appearing in it relentlessly. But do not confuse them with needs. Needs are necessity, but wants are luxury.

As utterly irrational as it might seem, the greed within me has the most limited vision I can possibly imagine as it has eyes only for the few things it doesn’t have, and it is completely blind to all the many remarkable things that it does.

Despite all of our incessant tinkering, we can’t manufacture the things we most desperately need. And if perchance we do, they will never be more than pathetically emaciated facsimiles that will leave us emaciated. And until we finally realize that we can only ‘find’ these things, we will never sense any compulsion to ‘find’ God.

When people hurt it is because they feel they are going to lose something. The questions to ask is: What?

What you value at the highest level needs to be in alignment with your partner or you will have conflict.

Christmas embodies everything that I need. However, everything that I need is often made up of a lot of stuff I don’t want.

Everyone wants to impress somebody...- That's how it works!

Frogs, ducks, rhinos, octopuses – whatever you desire. The world will be built new for you every morning. If you stay here, you can have whatever you want.’ Coraline sighed. ‘You really don’t understand, do you?’ she said. ‘I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted? Just like that, and it didn’t mean anything. What then?