"What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want."

-- Robert Jordan

#Want Quotes #What You Want Quotes

“I don't disagree with anything I've ever said. Why in God's name would I disagree with something I've said?”
“The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.”
“I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.”
“My love for the child asleep in the crib, the child's need for me, for my vigilance, had made my life valuable in a way that even the most abundantly offered love, my parents', my brother's, even Tom's, had failed to do. Love was required of me now--to be given, not merely to be sought and returned.”

Source : Alice McDermott (2013). “Someone: A Novel”, p.192, Macmillan
“Make time for prayer and reflection; try to understand your value as a man on earth but see, too, your proper place in the scheme of things. It may sound funny to say this, but I have come to see that we are all far more important and less important than we think.”
“What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head.”
“To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.”
“It has been hard, I know, my daughters, but one word alone wipes out all of the hardships: love.”

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