Kelsang Gyatso Quotes

That's the only place in all the lands we've ever heard of that we don't want to see any closer; and that's the one place we're trying to get to! And that's just where we can't get, nohow.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

You couldn't have it if you DID want it.

The more a character wants and the less a character has the ability to get what they want, the more you have an endless fuel for storytelling in comedy.

It hurts to want everything and nothing at the same time.

Giving people what they want isn't always what they want.

What you don't want is always going to be with you What you want is never going to be with you Where you don't want to go, you have to go And the moment you think you're going to live more, you're going to die

Curious how often you Humans manage to obtain that which you do not want.

As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic.

But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.

Standing knee deep in a river and dying of thirst.

I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know.

It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.

Sometimes we don't know what we want until we don't get it.

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

We obtain things when we no longer want them.

Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.

When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.

And what you need ironically. Will turn out what you want to be. If you just let it.

You always want what you can’t have.

Well, you know how it feels if you begin hoping for something that you want desperately badly; you almost fight against the hope because it is too good to be true; you've been disappointed so often before.

I'm not sure why we want each other," she grumbled. "Nor am I, but the fact remains that we do want each other." "Maybe I'm just shallow. You're quite pretty." "For now, that will do." Infuriating man. Couldn't take an insult the way she intended. -Annabelle and Zacharel

You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'

When you want what you want more than you fear what you want, you will have it.

It's always the people who don't want things who get them.