Quotes About Wanting

Do not treat worst the one you love best. I hear you, Oddrún. But that still leaves a question the saga does not ask. It may be that the sealwoman had it in mind that an answer should be sought to this, too. Is it by the wanting that we measure love, or by something else?

The Zen philosophy posits that 'human beings suffer' and 'the cause of suffering is desire.' The way to put an end to suffering is to stop wanting everything, all the time.

It's a very exciting time in the history of this country, to even see people responding to a different way of doing business and really wanting to make a change.

She wanted it to last forever. She wanted him in her. She wanted release. She could not endure much longer without release. But not yet. Not yet. She wanted the wanting him to go on forever. She did not want thought or sanity or the cold and cruel world to come back. She wanted this to go on forever.

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

You can't condemn a man for wanting peace. If you do, you condemn peace itself.

and luckily I have enough in my head to balance what is wanting in my back.

Wanting is natural, and may succeed or fail without wrong. Say covet, rather. To covet is to desire something which should not be given.

You want peace so badly and in the wanting of it there is no peace. Only when the wanting stops will you discover that peace has been there all along.

The truth is, I pretend to be a cynic, but I am really a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something she may never get.

And wanting nothing, regretting nothing, Peters smiled gratefully at life—running past, indifferent, ungrateful, treacherous, mocking, meaningless, alien—marvelous, marvelous, marvelous.

Everybody does the same mistake: refusing the means, but wanting the ends. You want peace and harmony in the world, but refuse to have them in yourself.

In sex one wants or does not want. And the grief, the sorrow of life is that one cannot make or coerce or persuade the wanting, cannot command it, cannot request it by mail order or finagle it through bureaucratic channels.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

A tough will counts. So does desire. So does a rich soft wanting. Without rich wanting nothing arrives.

Want the Change, Rilke said, O be inspired by the Flame! To laurel, to nightingale, to wind... to *wanting* it, to be taken, to embrace, to fall to-ward the flame growing to fill all the senses and... not to love because it was no longer possible to act... but to be helplessly in a condition of love...

Joe had long resented how American culture had taught him to want. There were so many things pictured in ads, displayed in store windows: stereo TVs, personality dolls, electronic board games, inboard-outboard motors, personalized bowling balls, graphite baitcasting rods. You were taught to want it all.

Do some good in the world for no other reason than wanting to be part of the solution.

He supposed that was the way of human beings, wanting what they couldn't have,

I can't take it anymore. The waiting. The wanting. Something inside me snaps. I hate myself. I hate that I have to deal with this. I hate my life. And I hate how I can't count on anyone to be completely there when I need them, exactly the way I need them to be.

For me, the fans missing me and wanting to see me on TV is very important, but the business end of it also has to be right.

I lived a life where I had less than I desired. So instead of wanting more, sometimes I just made myself want even less. Sometimes I made myself believe that I wanted nothing, not even food or air. And if I wanted nothing, I'd just turn into a ghost. And that would be the end of it.

Letters I've never sent. This life we're only renting. Battered the world is - bartered - wander over it the stars finding us wanting.

God says you may not have anything you want. Why is this so? Answer #19: Because the mere act of wanting something tells the Universe that you don't have it, and the Universe has no choice but to reflect that back in your reality. You end up getting more "wanting what you want," because God always says "yes" to your Sponsoring Thought.