How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!- Lavater
The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.- Socrates
As long as I have a want, I have a reason to live, satisfaction is death.- G.B. Shaw
Adam was but human, this explains it all. He did not want the apple for apple’s sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.- Mark Twain
Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.- R.W. Emerson
Worth of a thing is best known by its wants.- Proverb
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. -Samuel Johnson
Our needs are always in a hurry. They rush and hustle,
no patience for anything else but fulfilment of purpose.- R.N. Tagor
