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If you were brought up on a poor man’s brand of drink and prefer that to this very day then do not pretend you like expensive wine.

I pushed her shiny blond hair away from her face and leaned down, our faces only inches apart. She inhaled softly, our lips so close I could feel her breath and the scent of her skin, like honeysuckle in springtime. She smelled like sweet tea and old books, like she had always been here.I pulled my fingers through her hair and held it at the back of her neck. Her skin was soft and warm, like a Mortal girl's. There was no electric current, no shocks. We could kiss for as long as we wanted. If we had a fight, there wouldn't be a flood or a hurricane, or even a storm. I wouldn't find her on the ceiling of her bedroom. No windows would shatter. No exams would catch fire.Liv held up her face to be kissed.She wanted me.

Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

If you find you're not getting what you want, stop and think about what it is you really need. If there is a lesson to be learned, learn it. Getting what you need, will often lead to what you truly want...

To make initial inroads into manifesting a new life, first one has to acknowledge their current life.

Life wants you to live in total alignment with true love, passion and integrity.

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.

Desire speaks, passion shouts, lust screams, and love whispers.

Want is an empty void — your real value is full and abundant.

I want to build you a house with my bare hands and carry you over the threshold. I want too cook for you every evening and bring you tea in bed in the mornings. I want to read with you in front of an open fire, sipping a glass of wine. I want to drive you to the beach and lie next to you in the sun. I may not be a man of means, bit I want to take care of you as best I can.

I want people to feel safe around me. Calm and at peace and I want to make people feel accepted. I want to express confidence on my own path, and spread confidence to other people on theirs.

Everyone has something they can't live without.

Inspire them to want so much more than what's normal.

Most days, I’ve got this impermanence thing down just great. It doesn’t bother me; what’s to bother? Most days, I sit comfortably with the knowledge that I’ll die alone, and I feel nothing so strongly as my embrace of my nothingness. Most days don’t really matter, because there is only this day, and right now I feel like fear is all I am. I don’t want you to leave. Just let me pretend you won’t.'He wrapped his arms around me and we slept. For that night, we would last forever.

You get exactly what you want, Anatole’s always suspected, only when you get it it’s no longer what you want, you need something else.

When you want something you've never had, you have to do something you've never done.

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

It's mind-boggling how many different worlds people live in on this one planet.

You don’t want to be a rich businessman, a renowned artist, or whatsoever profession you choose to be into. What you really want is to be happy with what you do and to bring happiness in the lives of the people whom you love and who love you.

You must want it, to chase for it.

I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.

Positive words can bend your world in your favor.

Our mind has evolved in such a way that new wants keep appearing in it relentlessly. But do not confuse them with needs. Needs are necessity, but wants are luxury.

If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.

If you don’t choose what you want, someone make the choice for you.

Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want.

Life can be generous, but leaves us with a trilemma: How can we reconcile three diverse features: ‘I’, 'me' and the 'others'. Since the “I” entails what I want; the “me” what others expect of me and the “others” what others themselves want. The bridges between "individuality", “surroundings” and "otherness" can be abysmal and very often waiting to be restored. (“I am on my own side, but I can listen “ )

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

Even if things aren't going the way we want right now, we will always get through it.

If she knew how beautiful love is, she would already put it in a box, seal, and preserve it.So she could smell it whenever she wants.

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?

I don't want what love is. I want what love is supposed to be.

Your level of vibration runs parallel with your feelings, meaning you are in control of your life and the events that come into your life at any given moment.

Whatever you want you must ask.You get want you want.

The first step to reclaim your power to control your own life is to take responsibility for your life completely.

That's how it is with want. As long as you lack something you yearn for it without cease. if only I could have that one thing, you tell yourself, all my problems would be solved. But once you get it, once the object of your desires is thrust into your hands, it begins to lose its charm. Other wants assert themselves, other desires make themselves felt, and bit by bit you discover that you're right back where you started.

I know a lot of wealthy people, and yet not many of them drive a Rolls Royce or a Ferrari! However, I also know some of poor people on the verge of bankruptcy driving Bentleys!

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.

Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have.

Wanting and wishing are very different

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

We can imprison ourselves with our wants, wishes, and false dreams.

Those who don’t want to take risks in life end up been the losers.

[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)

They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it.

I feel safe when people threaten me, but I feel threaten, when people respect me, because I understand they want something, but I do not understand what they want.

She realised with every inch of her being that she wanted Freya; she was in love with Freya. Her mind, with its perfectly rational arguments, had list the battle with her heart. She felt it. It was real. The conflict was torture.

I want, I don’t want.How can one live with such a heart?

Many politicians are tantalizing storytellers, as they mix facts with fiction, grab our emotion and tell things, they want us to believe. Their factoids are unremittingly reiterated, take a life on their own and in the end become the very truth… until the bubble bursts.("What after bowling alone?" )

Everyone wants to impress somebody...- That's how it works!

But we don’t think too well when we want too much.