Wanting Quotes

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Friendships that last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from them. — Cyril Connolly
If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness; for in truth… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Those wanting to improve democracy in their countries should not wait for permission. — Bulent Ecevit
For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty… — John Milton
As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic. — Andy Warhol
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to… — David Hume
The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting. — Plutarch
I will fight for you, yes, and you will fight for me. And if you have sacrificed joy and courage and beauty and wisdom for… — Eleanor Farjeon
Love is all around you like the air and is the very breath of your being. But you cannot know it, feel its unfeeling touch,… — Barry Long
A long time ago, Anne used to talk about energy-how that was all that love was-ions connecting across synapses of time and air. Don't rationalize,… — Jacqueline Woodson
Your children are not your children, they come through you, but they are life itself, wanting to express itself. — Wayne Dyer
It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music. — Barry Gibb
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. — Carl Sandburg
Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting. — Carolyn Hax
Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
I forget the derivation of Boxing Day, but the feeling of wanting to invite your loved ones outside one at a time and punch them… — Allison Pearson
I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina. — Suzanne Farrell
For me, acting is torturous, and it's torturous because you know it's a beautiful thing. I was young once, and I said, that's beautiful and… — Philip Seymour Hoffman
I'm over the Oscar thing. I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll… — Bill Murray
There is a lot of relief for daters who are serious about wanting to be in a relationship. This comes in the form of what… — April Masini

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