“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.”— Ram Dass, amazon.com
“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com
“It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.”— Heraclitus, amazon.com
“And I want to be happy. Like, seventy to eighty percent of the time. I want to be actively, thoughtfully happy.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.”— Jim Henson, consequenceofsound.net
“All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.”— Rita Hayworth, en.wikiquote.org
“I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.”— Anne Frank, amazon.com
“There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen.”— Maurice Sendak, amazon.com
“I don’t want to be a piece of art. Nobody touches artwork. They just look from afar and move on.”— Azra T., quotemadness.com
“Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.”— Czeslaw Milosz, washingtonpost.com
“This girl who stands so quiet and grave at the mouth of hell. This girl who is all quietness and sanity and innocence. You wondered why I wanted her?”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.com
“That’s the worst of growing up, and I’m beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don’t seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.”— L. M. Montgomery, amazon.com
“Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com