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• For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have.

  John Steinbeck

  Animal, Giving, Talent

  John Steinbeck (1993). “The Pearl”, p.31, Penguin

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• If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

  Philip Pullman

  Hard Work, Risk, Despair

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• I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was a part of me that enjoyed hating school, and the drama of not going, the potential consequences whatever they were. I was intrigued by the unknown. I was even slightly thrilled that my mother was such a mess. Had I become addicted to crisis? I traced my finger along the windowsill. 'Want something normal, want something normal, want something normal', I told myself.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Mother, Drama, Hate

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.129, Macmillan

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• I'm tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I'm hacking away at the surface, as at some kind of gray ice, trying to break through to what is underneath or I am dead. I can feel the surface trembling—it seems ready to give but it never does. I am uninterested in current events. How can I justify this? How can I explain it? I don't want to have the same vocabulary I've always had. I want something richer, broader, more penetrating and powerful.

  James Salter

  Powerful, Tired, Ice

  James Salter, Robert Phelps (2010). “Memorable Days: The Selected Letters of James Salter and Robert Phelps”, p.25, Counterpoint Press

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• One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Mother, Hurt, Book

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.154, A&C Black

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• I do a lot of reading on Buddhist philosophy, and a Buddhist nun named Pema Chödrön talks a lot about acceptance. It's one of the main tenets of Buddhism - accepting that what is, is. The root of our suffering is when we just don't want to accept a truth. We want something to be different than it is.

  Sara Bareilles

  Buddhist, Philosophy, Reading

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It is a terrible thing to want something you cannot have. It takes you over. I couldn't think straight because of it. There was no one else, I realized, whom I could possibly tell.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Thinking, Terrible, I Realized

  Maggie O'Farrell (2008). “The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Waiting, World, Deals

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• Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Character, Glasses

  "Uncovering the secrets of storytelling" by Paul Willis, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2008.

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• When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World.... when you love someone with all your heart, that's when you are transformed." "Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth is alive... and it has a soul. We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognize that it is working for us.... we continue to change as change is the nature of man. No one is "just this way". That is who they are today - it will not be who they are tomorrow.

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Men, When You Love Someone

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• The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.

  Adrienne Rich

  Truth, Speak, Unconscious

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.

  Paulo Coelho

  Soul, Alchemist, Desire

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and ell pie. You want something to sober you down a bit. We're only saying it for your own good, Puddleglum.' That's what they say. Now a job like this --a journey up north just as winter's beginning looking for a prince that probably isn't there, by way of ruined city nobody's ever seen-- will be just the thing. If that doesn't steady a chap, I don't know what will.

  C. S. Lewis

  Jobs, Winter, Journey

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• Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends, to make things right.

  Mark Helprin

  Loss, Balance, Done

  Mark Helprin (2007). “Memoir from Antproof Case”, p.522, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you want something, go get it. Period.

  Chris Gardner

  Motivational, Inspirational Life, Pursuit Of Happiness

  "Fictional character: Chris Gardner". "The Pursuit of Happyness", 2006.

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• I've learned that God sometimes allows us to find ourselves in a place where we want something so bad that we can't see past it. Sometimes we can't even see God because of it. When we want something that bad, it's easy to mistake what we truly need for the thing we really want. When this sort of thing happens, and it seems to happen to everyone, I've found it's because what God has for us is obscured from view, just around another bend in the road.

  Bob Goff

  Mistake, Past, Views

  Bob Goff (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.35, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody you love, and they actually, sincerely believe you, you feel like a cockroach that needs some serious Raid action.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Lying, Believe, Feel Good

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• Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another

  Parker Stevenson

  Stranger, Grinning, Want U

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• If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently.

  F. Burton Howard

  Marriage, Forever, Lasts

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• If you want something good to come out of something, you have to put in a lot of effort. That involves a lot of hard work, and a lot of blood, sweat and tears sometimes. No different to anything, no different to what we all do.

  Ed O'Brien

  Hard Work, Blood, Sweat

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• If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.

  John Loengard

  Light, Interesting, Looks

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• People say they want shorter, but really want something that rivets them. They've got endless time for great.

  Bob Lefsetz

  Endless Time, People, Want

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• I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Fate, Giving, Different

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2006). “A Girl of the Limberlost”, p.221, Applewood Books

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• The longer you wait to decide what you want to do, the more time you're wasting. It's up to you to want something so badly that your passion shows through in your actions. Your actions, not your words, will do the shouting for you.

  Derek Jeter

  Inspirational, Motivational, Passion

  Derek Jeter (2010). “The Life You Imagine: Life Lessons for Achieving Your Dreams”, p.4, Broadway Books

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• Marriage: If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don't expose it to the elements. You don't make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.

  F. Burton Howard

  Love, Family, Marriage

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