We long for what we cannot have, yet desire it not so much because it would benefit us, as because it is beyond our reach.

The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in unnecessary things, and are wanting when required for that which is necessary.

I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the things we need.

We are more than our base desires, and our lives are not sustained by gratifying them.

So often we fail to acknowledge what we have because we’re so concerned about what we want.

We suffer by wanting different things often at odds with one another, but we suffer even more by wanting to want different things.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

You know, with all the hard work we put in everyday, we definitely aren’t the only ones that want the best things of life. But this is the real world, and in the real world some of us take what we can get. But the truth is, there’s literally nothing wrong in wanting more, cos some of us actually deserve more

Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.

We want something more now, something more than the tolerance you never gave us.

Our desires increase with our possessions.

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

And as the world becomes more and more complex, and the commodities more varied, the feelings we want become more urgent, less rational, more unconscious.

But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.