#want

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for. ↗

— Laura Lippman

#life #need #possessions #regret #wanting

Maybe it was because I didn't want to look at my life and see what is missing. Once you identify what you lack, then it's all you see anymore. Wanting something I couldn't have would only lead to unhappiness, so I tried to be content with what I had. ↗

— Lisa Mangum

#life

And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed till the last unreachable rung is mounted? For height leads on to height, and there is not resting-place among them, and rung doth grow upon rung, and there is no limit to the number. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#endeavors #greed #humanity #ladder #learning

What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#desires #love #wants #love

The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#risk #want #love

You start at SNL when you're young and hungry, but I don't want my pro years to be my SNL years. ↗

— Jason Sudeikis

#i #pro #snl #start #want

I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#good #great #great love #had #haven

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. ↗

— Vernon Howard

#need #only #really #succeeded #want

There was a time when I thought I was doing a good thing with good guys for a good cause. Looking back, I think I really wanted to be a warrior. ↗

— Steven Seagal

#back #cause #doing #good #good cause

When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music, and the same teacher invited me back to speak at the school. I don't say that to brag, I just want to be an example. ↗

— Big Sean

#back #brag #example #following #graduated