Desire Quote by Nathan Hill

“He needs little who desires but little.”

— Cleanthes

“They had a longing to move up and out, to be something bigger than they were born to.”

— Kim Severson

“We'd had small lives, populated by a longing for something more substantial than dirt roads and small dreams.”

— Kevin Powers

“The smaller the house, the more a family is forced to love one another.”

— Colleen Hoover

“Nothing is far and nothing is near, if one desires. The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only…

— Willa Cather

“Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them”

— L.M. Montgomery

“Yes, I am his mother—I can say that now—for only after I released myself from my own expectations of motherhood did I realize that…

— Hope Jahren

“...he remembered his uncle saying once how little vocabulary man really needed to get comfortably and even efficiently through his life, how not only…

— William Faulkner

“If you don’t have something grand for men like us to be part of, we will take apart all the little things. Neighbourhood by…

— Dave Eggers

“I wanted what she [her mother] had wanted, what we all want: everything. We want a mate who feels like family and a lover…

— Ariel Levy

“The choices I make in this life, small or large, are mine alone.”

— James Flerlage