wants

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
0da1bc3	What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.	desires love wants	Jodi Picoult
394f866	It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.	david-levithan desire every-day wants	David Levithan
2d64ce8	It's never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.	inspirational life mental-health needs overreaction reaction wants wisdom	Amy Poehler
3d98faa	I wanted what we all want: everything. We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising. We want to be youthful adventurers and middle-aged mothers. We want intimacy and autonomy, safety and stimulation, reassurance and novelty, coziness and thrills. But we can't have it all.	have-it-all wants	Ariel Levy
cf890f4	Where was that fragile, golden-fair Dresden doll I used to be? Gone. Gone like porcelain turned into steel-made into someone who would always get what she wanted, no matter who or what stood in her way.	changed doll fair fragile fragility gone made obstacles porcelain she someone steel turned-into used-to-be wants	V.C. Andrews
548ee86	Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows 'what he wants,' while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. In order to accept this it is necessary to realize that to know what one really wants is not comparatively easy, as most people think, but one of the most difficult problems any human being has to solve. It is a task we frantically try to avoid by accepting ready-made goals as though they were our own.	freedom wants will	Erich Fromm
5b89cc5	Your heart has to let your head know what it wants.	wants	Debbie Macomber
edff35f	The media represents world that is more real than reality that we can experience. People lose the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. They also begin to engage with the fantasy without realizing what it really is. They seek happiness and fulfilment through the simulacra of reality, e.g. media and avoid the contact/interaction with the real world.	happiness media reality simulation wants	Jean Baudrillard
73a7e61	But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else.	everyone everything first-time had-known lie making-love marriage moment needs saction sin transgression wants without-marriage	Jodi Picoult
9334eff	Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.	life love wants	Fulton J. Sheen
3c64d13	Sometimes, I think we're afraid to admit we want certain things. Especially things that contradict the image we have of ourselves.	wants wishes	Debbie Macomber
11968b5	There is black. There is white. Gray is a cowardly excuse to mix our wants with our needs.	excuse gray needs wants white	Kim Harrison
8d79680	"Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us down again. Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn't mean we are doomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of finding perfection. Then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won't be disappointed." If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. But after all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing-I wanted a mountain high! A hill wasn't enough. From this day forward, I vowed to myself, I was in control of my life. Not fate, not God, not even Chris was ever again going to tell me what to do, or dominate me in any way. From this day forward, I was my own person, to take what I would, when I would, and I would answer only to myself. I'd been kept prisoner, held captive by greed. I'd been betrayed, deceived, tied to, used, poisoned ... but all that was over now."	captive decieved defeat defeated doom doomed dreaming expectations fate great-expectations greed happiness longing perfection poisened put-downs striving towmorrow used vow vows wanting wants years years-of-struggle	V.C. Andrews
9e3f035	In life you hoped to do what you could but mostly you did what you were told and that was the end of it.	life wants	Iain M. Banks
4f8bd81	Yes, what is it like? Certainly not like she dreamed. But maybe that's okay. We want what we want. At home, she works herself into a frenzy worrying about what she isn't--and perhaps loses track of just where she is.	wants	Jess Walter
6713f34	The only weapon of power, its only strategy against this defection, is to reinject the real and the referential everywhere, to persuade us of the reality of the social, of the gravity of the economy and the finalities of production.	power production reality society wants	Jean Baudrillard
cac94a0	"Failure to put the relationship on a slower timetable may result in an act that was never intended in the first place. Another important principle is to avoid the circumstances where compromise is likely. A girl who wants to preserve her virginity should not find herself in a house or dorm room alone with someone to whom she is attracted. Nor should she single-date with someone she has reason not to trust. A guy who wants to be moral should stay away from the girl he knows would go to bed with him. Remember the words of Solomon to his son, "Keep to a path far from her, do not go near the door of her house" (Proverbs 5:8). I know this advice sounds very narrow in a day when virginity is mocked and chastity is considered old-fashioned. But I don't apologize for it. The Scriptures are eternal, and God's standards of right and wrong do not change with the whims of culture. He will honor and help those who are trying to follow His commandments. In fact, the apostle Paul said, "He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear" (1Corinthians 10:13). Hold that promise and continue to use your head. You'll be glad you did."	act advice alone and apostle are attracted avoid away be bear bed beyond can change chastity circumstances commandments compromise considered continue culture day did do door eternal failure first follow girl glad go god-s guy he head help her him hold honor house important intended is keep knows let likely may mocked moral narrow near never not old-fashioned path paul place preserve principle proberbs promise reason relationship remeber result right scriptures she should single-date slower solomon someone son sounds standards stay tempted those to trust trying use very virginity wants what-you whims who whom will with words would wrong you you-ll your	James C. Dobson
1aa1629	Kogda ia byl molozhe, ia poluchal to, chto mne bylo polozheno. Kazalos', v etom i sostoit zhizn'. I gde-to podsoznatel'no ia schital, chto sushchestvuet nekaia sistema vysshei spravedlivosti. No ee net. Ili esli i est', to ne dlia takikh, kak ia. I vozmozhno ne dlia takikh, kak vy. Esli my poluchaem lish' to, chto nam prichitaetsia, to my poluchaem nemnogo, ved' tak? I vse delo v tom, chego ty khochesh', razve net? Kogda ia byl molozhe, ia pritvorialsia, chto khochu, ili deistvitel'no dumal, chto khochu, mnozhestvo veshchei, prosto potomu, chto etogo zhe khoteli drugie. Ia ne utverzhdaiu, chto stal starshe i mudree - nu khorosho, lish' chut'-chut', - no seichas ia znaiu, chego khochu i ne teriaiu vremeni na to, chego ia ne khochu. I esli vy otvechaete za sebia, to ne stoit perezhivat' po povodu togo, chto kto-to eshche chego-to khochet. Potomu chto eto tozhe otnimaet mnogo vremeni.	wants	Julian Barnes

What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.

Jodi Picoult

394f866

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

david-levithan desire every-day wants

David Levithan

2d64ce8

It's never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.

inspirational life mental-health needs overreaction reaction wants wisdom

Amy Poehler

3d98faa

I wanted what we all want: everything. We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising. We want to be youthful adventurers and middle-aged mothers. We want intimacy and autonomy, safety and stimulation, reassurance and novelty, coziness and thrills. But we can't have it all.

have-it-all wants

Ariel Levy

cf890f4

Where was that fragile, golden-fair Dresden doll I used to be? Gone. Gone like porcelain turned into steel-made into someone who would always get what she wanted, no matter who or what stood in her way.

changed doll fair fragile fragility gone made obstacles porcelain she someone steel turned-into used-to-be wants

V.C. Andrews

548ee86

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows 'what he wants,' while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. In order to accept this it is necessary to realize that to know what one really wants is not comparatively easy, as most people think, but one of the most difficult problems any human being has to solve. It is a task we frantically try to avoid by accepting ready-made goals as though they were our own.

freedom wants will

Erich Fromm

5b89cc5

Your heart has to let your head know what it wants.

wants

Debbie Macomber

edff35f

The media represents world that is more real than reality that we can experience. People lose the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. They also begin to engage with the fantasy without realizing what it really is. They seek happiness and fulfilment through the simulacra of reality, e.g. media and avoid the contact/interaction with the real world.

happiness media reality simulation wants

Jean Baudrillard

73a7e61

But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else.

everyone everything first-time had-known lie making-love marriage moment needs saction sin transgression wants without-marriage

Jodi Picoult

9334eff

Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.

life love wants

Fulton J. Sheen

3c64d13

Sometimes, I think we're afraid to admit we want certain things. Especially things that contradict the image we have of ourselves.

wants wishes

Debbie Macomber

11968b5

There is black. There is white. Gray is a cowardly excuse to mix our wants with our needs.

excuse gray needs wants white

Kim Harrison

8d79680

"Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us down again. Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn't mean we are doomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of finding perfection. Then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won't be disappointed." If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. But after all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing-I wanted a mountain high! A hill wasn't enough. From this day forward, I vowed to myself, I was in control of my life. Not fate, not God, not even Chris was ever again going to tell me what to do, or dominate me in any way. From this day forward, I was my own person, to take what I would, when I would, and I would answer only to myself. I'd been kept prisoner, held captive by greed. I'd been betrayed, deceived, tied to, used, poisoned ... but all that was over now."

captive decieved defeat defeated doom doomed dreaming expectations fate great-expectations greed happiness longing perfection poisened put-downs striving towmorrow used vow vows wanting wants years years-of-struggle

V.C. Andrews

9e3f035

In life you hoped to do what you could but mostly you did what you were told and that was the end of it.

life wants

Iain M. Banks

4f8bd81

Yes, what is it like? Certainly not like she dreamed. But maybe that's okay. We want what we want. At home, she works herself into a frenzy worrying about what she isn't--and perhaps loses track of just where she is.

wants

Jess Walter

6713f34

The only weapon of power, its only strategy against this defection, is to reinject the real and the referential everywhere, to persuade us of the reality of the social, of the gravity of the economy and the finalities of production.

power production reality society wants

Jean Baudrillard

cac94a0

"Failure to put the relationship on a slower timetable may result in an act that was never intended in the first place. Another important principle is to avoid the circumstances where compromise is likely. A girl who wants to preserve her virginity should not find herself in a house or dorm room alone with someone to whom she is attracted. Nor should she single-date with someone she has reason not to trust. A guy who wants to be moral should stay away from the girl he knows would go to bed with him. Remember the words of Solomon to his son, "Keep to a path far from her, do not go near the door of her house" (Proverbs 5:8). I know this advice sounds very narrow in a day when virginity is mocked and chastity is considered old-fashioned. But I don't apologize for it. The Scriptures are eternal, and God's standards of right and wrong do not change with the whims of culture. He will honor and help those who are trying to follow His commandments. In fact, the apostle Paul said, "He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear" (1Corinthians 10:13). Hold that promise and continue to use your head. You'll be glad you did."

act advice alone and apostle are attracted avoid away be bear bed beyond can change chastity circumstances commandments compromise considered continue culture day did do door eternal failure first follow girl glad go god-s guy he head help her him hold honor house important intended is keep knows let likely may mocked moral narrow near never not old-fashioned path paul place preserve principle proberbs promise reason relationship remeber result right scriptures she should single-date slower solomon someone son sounds standards stay tempted those to trust trying use very virginity wants what-you whims who whom will with words would wrong you you-ll your

James C. Dobson

1aa1629

Kogda ia byl molozhe, ia poluchal to, chto mne bylo polozheno. Kazalos', v etom i sostoit zhizn'. I gde-to podsoznatel'no ia schital, chto sushchestvuet nekaia sistema vysshei spravedlivosti. No ee net. Ili esli i est', to ne dlia takikh, kak ia. I vozmozhno ne dlia takikh, kak vy. Esli my poluchaem lish' to, chto nam prichitaetsia, to my poluchaem nemnogo, ved' tak? I vse delo v tom, chego ty khochesh', razve net? Kogda ia byl molozhe, ia pritvorialsia, chto khochu, ili deistvitel'no dumal, chto khochu, mnozhestvo veshchei, prosto potomu, chto etogo zhe khoteli drugie. Ia ne utverzhdaiu, chto stal starshe i mudree - nu khorosho, lish' chut'-chut', - no seichas ia znaiu, chego khochu i ne teriaiu vremeni na to, chego ia ne khochu. I esli vy otvechaete za sebia, to ne stoit perezhivat' po povodu togo, chto kto-to eshche chego-to khochet. Potomu chto eto tozhe otnimaet mnogo vremeni.

wants

Julian Barnes