Quotes on Want

I fish because I love to . . . because I love the environs where trout are found . . . because I suspect that men are going along this way for the last time, and I for one don’t want to waste the trip . . . and, finally, not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant––and not nearly so much fun.

Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.

What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.

If you want to preach a revolutionary message, wear a suit.

If you don't know what you want, don't say you never had a chance.

So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more sorrow. Usually we assume we must grasp in order to have that something that will ensure our happiness. [...] Learning to live is learning to let go.

If you want to have a nonmiraculous day, I suggest that newspaper and caffeine form the crux of your morning regimen. Listen to the morning news while you're in the shower, read the headlines as you are walking out the door, make sure you're keeping tabs on everything: the wars, the economy, the gossip, the natural disasters. . . But if you want the day ahead to be full of miracles, then spend some time each morning with God.

I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool.

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

I want to say, and this is very important: at the end we lucked out. It was luck that prevented nuclear war. We came that close to nuclear war at the end. Rational individuals: Kennedy was rational; Khrushchev was rational; Castro was rational. Rational individuals came that close to total destruction of their societies. And that danger exists today.

We live in an age rather skeptical of truth, of its existence." There is a "tendency to believe that nothing is definitive, and think that the truth is given by consent or by what we want. The question arises: does "the" truth really exist? What is "the" truth? Can we know it? Can we find it?

How to transcend the senses without disturbing the health is what we want to learn.

He who wants to become a Bhakta must be strong, must be healthy.

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!

Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think.

Within you is the kingdom of serenity that can create all the prosperity you could ever want.

Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.

If you want to look for obstacles, what's wrong is always available. But so is what's right!