Wants Quotes

In this life, only one thing is needful ; God's grace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I have all I need.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God’s provision, timeless resources.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

More often than not, people who are obsessed with their desires and feelings are generally unhappier in life vs. people that refocus their attention on service to others or a righteous cause. Have you ever heard someone say their life sucked because they fed the homeless? Made their children laugh? Or, bought a toy for a needy child at Christmas time?

~ Shannon L. Alder

Maybe, it wasn't stuck in my mind. Maybe,just maybe, it was stuck in my heart for so long that it grew wings and wanted to fly, but didn't know how.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Take your desires for reality! can be understood as the ultimate slogan of power.

~ Jean Baudrillard

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.

~ Jean Baudrillard

16. Christians should never consult astrologers, psychics, or those who practice witchcraft (see Isaiah 47:13-14). They are usually phonies who only pretend to have extrasensory powers. But in some cases, they are working in cooperation with Satan. Rather than tamper with this evil world, the one true God wants us to bring our needs, problems, and decisions to Him. He has promised to lead us into all truth (see John 8:32).

~ James C. Dobson

Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life's time to both.

~ Carew Papritz

God doesn't hand you an easy life because you will grow in it. He hands you a dream with hurdles, obstacles, setbacks, battles and challenges because he knows the real you is at the finishing line.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes, you don't get what you want the most... At other times, you're just lucky.

~ Sanhita Baruah

What we need is more books to read.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To be happy without your wants is greatest contentment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You will know those who love you, when you are in need.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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.

~ Ariel Levy

Needs are imposed by nature. Wants are sold by society.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In a society that prioritizes man’s health, a cleaner is more important than a lawyer.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It’s a funny thing, one day you’re living and the next day you’re not sometimes, whether you have plans or not. Wishes and wants get trumped by the reaper every time. I don’t even know if I would want a warning if it was my time. I think I’d rather be surprised.

~ Dan Groat

The Lord God is our great helper.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Maintain a persistent focus of what you want

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Too often, we put up with mediocrity, telling ourselves that later in life we’ll do what we want.

~ Daniel Willey

Once your past no longer has the power to define you, your future is, quite literally, yours for the taking. Every single beautiful thing you could possibly want or imagine will be yours.

~ Dan Pearce

I trust God to meet my every need.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Insofar as there shall always be a desire, there shall always be a want and there shall always be a need

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Whenever God wants to intervene in the affairs of the earth, he intervenes through light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom

~ Sunday Adelaja

The life of less, one bent on simplicity, and not needing or wanting anything other than what God has deemed good for you turns out to be all you could ever need or want.

~ Hayley Dimarco

Pray for your needs, not your greed.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

What matters most, God was there for me, when I need him.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I embrace my fate, spiritual journey.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God's grace is our greatest need.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Wish for what you want.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.

~ Sarah Dessen

Science gives man what he needs.But magic gives him what he wants.

~ Tom Robbins

Christmas embodies everything that I need. However, everything that I need is often made up of a lot of stuff I don’t want.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

2.27 THE ULTIMATEWith compassion and renunciation walking,With wants and desires ever shedding,With love within one’s heart flowing,Peace and Divinity shall never be wanting.[158] - 2

~ Munindra Misra

You can't be tempted, unless you want what is tempting you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Experience has taught us that material wants know no natural bounds, that they will expand without end unless we consciously restrain them. Capitalism rests precisely on this endless expansion of wants. That is why, for all its success, it remains so unloved. It has given us wealth beyond measure, but has taken away the chief benefit of wealth: the consciousness of having enough.

~ Robert Skidelsky Edward Skidelsky

We add caveats to prayers like seasoning to bad sauce. We hope for something else or something more, but we forget. Sometimes life isn’t the pleasure of the taste, rather the nutrition we get from it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

What is needful is necessary.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita