#wants

We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful, or disloyal, or childish, or banal. Or because we're so desperate to pretend that things are OK, really, that confessing to ourselves they're not looks like a bad move. Go on, say what you want. ... Whatever it is, say it to yourself. The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose. Surviving in whatever life you're living means lying, and lying corrodes the soul, so take a break from the lies for just one minute. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#life

Yes, Samantha, we in the Soviet Union are trying to do everything so that there will not be war on Earth. This is what every Soviet man wants. ↗

— Yuri Andropov

#every #everything #man #soviet #soviet union

consider the implications. We think we know what we want, but we can never really know until we've got it. And sometimes when we have, we discover we never really wanted it in the first place - but then it's too late ↗

— Alexandra Potter

#wants #wishes #life

The life of less, one bent on simplicity, and not needing or wanting anything other than what God has deemed good for you turns out to be all you could ever need or want. ↗

— Hayley DiMarco

#god #less #need #needs #simple

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