What You Want Quotes (page 8)

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• giving
• wants
• wanted

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken. Idries Shah

• acceptance
• water
• choose

fiction writing is like duck hunting. You go to the right place at the right time with the right dog. You get into the water before dawn, wearing a little protective gear, then you stand behind some reeds and wait for the story to present itself...You choose the place and the day. You pick the gun and the dog. You have the desire to blow the duck apart for reasons that are entirely your own. But you have to be willing to accept not what you wanted to have happen, but what happens... By... Ann Patchett

• happy
• what is happiness
• it is what it is

Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have. Sheryl Crow

• common
• wind
• world

Regret hung from the hem of everyone's lives, a rip cord reminder that what you want is not always what you get. Look at himself, outliving Aimee. Or Az, trying to find his daughter, only to have her wind up dead. Look at Shelby, with a child who was dying by degrees. Ethan, born into a body nobody deserves. At some point or another, everyone was failed by this world. Disappointment was the one thin humans had in common. Taken this way, Ross didn't feel quite so alone. Trapped in your... Jodi Picoult

• women
• wanted
• doing you

Do you know? What the fuck do women want? l know what you want: everything. Chris Rock

• get
• price
• want

The price of getting what you want is getting what once you wanted. Neil Gaiman

• going
• shamed
• means

It means what you are, wanting what you want and going after it without a sens od shame. People are slaves to rules. Milan Kundera

• dream
• heart
• understanding

But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted. Neil Gaiman

• wants
• want
• wanting

It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you have. Sheryl Crow

• training
• more
• doings

Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do. Kingsley Amis

• failure
• unhappy
• trade

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now Zig Ziglar

• saying
• wanted
• willfulness

It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear. Jeanette Winterson

• today
• giving
• motivational

Never give up what you want most for what you want today. Neal A. Maxwell

• bored
• personality
• hand

A melancholy air can never be the right thing; what you want is a bored air. If you are melancholy, it must be because you want something, there is something in which you have not succeeded. It is shewing your inferiority. If you are bored, on the other hand, it is the person who has tried in vain to please you who is inferior. Stendhal

• happy
• success
• achievement

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get. Bernard Meltzer