Quote by Marilynne Robinson

“To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow.”

— Marilynne Robinson

“sat down, though, I realized that you can get so used to certain luxuries that you start to think they’re necessities, but when you…

— Jeannette Walls

“I realized that you can get so used to certain luxuries that you start to think they’re necessities, but when you have to forgo…

— Jeannette Walls

“Funny how often something she'd been so certain she needed turned out not to be a need at all, but a want--when the real…

— Tamera Alexander

“Essential to life, is desiring the things that you need, than needing the things you desire.”

— Anthony Liccione

“You may not need to acquire all things you want, raise people who will be like you and meet needs.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

“Desire and need are two very different things.”

— Shawn Kirsten Maravel

“Because it takes work, often a lot of work and sacrifice, you have to really want to bring something into being.”

— M.J. Ryan

“Many people desire things they do not need.”

— Louis L'Amour

“Desire was its own reward, and a rarer luxury than you'd think. You could sometimes buy what you wanted; you could never buy wanting…

— Lionel Shriver

“There is a great need to be needed. Remember, you feel good whenever you are needed. Sometimes, even if it brings misery to you,…

— Osho

“Life is very strange. Here we miss the very thing that we crave for and cling to, and we find what we don’t seek.…

— Osho