#wants

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

— Jodi Picoult

#desires #love #wants #love

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from. ↗

— Mae West

#every man #figure #i #man #me

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#cannot #god #i #praised #time

The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time. ↗

— Francis Chan

#god #jesus #needs #pastor #wants

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#could #give #hurt #knowing #materialized

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. ↗

— David Viscott

#between #faith #life #man #merely

God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#children #god #him #patient #really

I play Rock Band, which is Guitar Hero times ten. You can play with four people, so when you have parties, you have a real band. Nobody ever wants to sing, so I'm always the one throwing down on the mic. ↗

— Elizabeth Banks

#band #down #ever #four #guitar

When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#child #conditional love #desperately #gives #kind

I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person? ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#been #bitter #childlike #could #dark