Quote by Benjamin Franklin

In the end, everything is found to be wanting.

— Frank Lentricchia

I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see…

— David Mitchell

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

— Sylvia Plath

Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to contain what this moment…

— Stephen Levine

What we want or desire is not necessarily we need.

— Anonymous

Yearning wants mostly to perpetuate itself.

— Mason Cooley

What we want or desire is not necessarily what we need.

— Aisha

“The underlying dynamic here is that a want can easily be interpreted as a need. This happens in two ways. First, we can make…

— Marc Foley

If we seek something, that same thing is seeking us.

— Paulo Coelho

Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.

— Anonymous

Sometimes we want what we see, but only see what we want.

— Anonymous

The first and most practical step in getting what one wants in this world is wanting it. One would think that the next step…

— Gerald Stanley Lee