Want proverbs

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◆ Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

- Eric Hoffer98

◆ I bought you a gift. It's something I've always wanted, but I'm not quite sure you'll like it. So if you don't want it just tell me and I'll be happy to keep it. After all, I'm only interested in making you happy. ?

- Jarod Kintz98

◆ A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.

- Harold Ramis98

◆ Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want--I want--I want--was all that she could think about--but just what this real want was she did no know.

- Carson McCullers98

◆ There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written.

- Toba Beta98

◆ Part of me wanted this more than anything else in the world—to have someone to hang out with, be like everyone else for a while. The rest of me screamed to get the hell out of there, not to get sucked in.

- Rachel Ward98

◆ ...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

- Jodi Picoult98

◆ But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?

- Mary Balogh98

◆ There was always a way, when one knew what one wanted.

- Donna Woolfolk Cross98

◆ Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

- Henry David Thoreau98

◆ What you focus on expands. So focus on what you want, not what you do not want.

- Esther Jno-Charles98

◆ Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.

- Connie Brockway98

◆ As I sat down, though, I realized that you can get used to certain luxuries that you start to think they're necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you don't need them after all. There was a big difference between needing things and wanting things--though a lot of people had trouble telling the two apart--and at the ranch, I could see, we have pretty much everything we'd need but precious little else.

- Jeannette Walls98

◆ He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on their silent and sleepless axis, and the leaves of the trees rustling against them, and he heard small changes in the grass. These little noises of footsteps and soft-fringed wing-beats and stealthy bellies drawn over the grass blades or rattling against the bracken at first frightened or interested him, so that he moved to see what they were (but never saw), then soothed him, so that he no longer cared to see what they were but trusted them to be themselves, and finally left him altogether as he swam down deeper and deeper, nuzzling into the scented turf, into the warm ground, into the unending waters under the earth.

- T.H. White98

◆ Every men wanted to be his friend and every woman wanted to be in his bed

- Dee Remy98