#wanting

This praise, though far from fulsome, gave me pleasure and that is to my shame. But there was something in him, some power of spirit, that made me want to please him. Perhaps, it occurs to me now, it was no more than the intensity of his wish. Men are distinguished by the power of their wanting. What this one wanted became his province and his meal, he governed it and fed on it from the first moment of desire. Besides, with the perversity of our nature, being tested had made me more desire to succeed, though knowing the enterprise to be sinful. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#wanting #men

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#contentment #gratefulness #longing #pine #pining

Part of being of a true existentialist is wanting to be what we make ourselves be by the way we choose to act, as opposed to making excuses for the way we act and regretting it. ↗

— Gary Cox

#choose #excuses #existentialism #existentialist #philosophy

I think at that time I obviously wasn't aware of what I really needed. But conversely, my wanting to prove something to everyone was beneficial 'cause if I hadn't done it then, maybe I'd never have done it. ↗

— Rick Allen

#beneficial #cause #conversely #done #everyone

When money comes into play then that's all it's about wanting money, who's making the most who can get the most, me, me me... and in the end it screws up the person and the sport. ↗

— Alexis Arguello

#comes #end #get #in the end #into

We get a lot of overseas people wanting to order cakes. ↗

— Jane Asher

#get #lot #order #overseas #people

Everybody out there watches the show and has expectations of wanting to be an 'Idol,' but we're going to teach them how much hard work goes into it. ↗

— Bo Bice

#expectations #goes #going #hard #hard work

We are already seeing older people wanting greater choice in how, when and where they receive care. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#care #choice #greater #how #older

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter. ↗

— Guy Debord

#center #chatter #chosen #condemning #consider

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given. ↗

— Leon Kass

#between #given #improve #savor #tension