Phyllis Bottome Quotes

What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.

It doesn't matter how much money you've got, or how many connections, there's always something you want that's out of reach.

I always want more.

I have a thousands wants; it's hard to really hone in on just a few.

People act on what they want more often than what they need.

If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we act as nature prompts us we can't go far wrong.

We are the total of our longings.

Find your vision, and let it guide you in all that you do. If you lack vision, look inside yourself. Draw on your natural gifts and desires.

What do people want? Well, you really can’t talk about wants until you talk about needs.

The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires

Don't go for what you know you can get. Go for what you really want.

A child forgets a time of hunger but never forgets the aching want of other things.

You have always fought against your dreams, and 'I want' has never even shown its face. It was always drowned out by 'I must' or 'I hope' or 'I need...'

The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.

Or perhaps it is just that desire lies at the heart of human existence. When we turn away from one desire, we must find another to cleave to with all our strength --or else we die.

Wilbur didn't want food, he wanted love.

Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can’t have. And then about what you receive and misuse.

You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you

What people need and what they want may be very different.

Alcohol has never caused anyone to do something they didn't want to do. It only enables them to do what they've always wanted but have instead repressed.

Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?

Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.

All get what they want; they do not always like it.