“What you want most you push away from you.
You want more than you care to admit.”
Source: The Bridges
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Tarjei Vesaas3
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Michelle Branch (1983) American singer-songwriter and guitarist
"All You Wanted"
2000s, The Spirit Room (2001)
Context: I wanted, to be like you. I wanted, everything. So, I tried. To be like you, and I got swept away. I didn't know that it was so cold and, you needed someone to show you the way. So I took your hand and we figured out, that when the time comes? I'd take you away. If you want to? I can save you; I can take you away from here. So lonely inside; so busy out there. And all you wanted, was somebody who cares.
“You pushed your greatest chance away
But still I really want to sayI forgive you.”
Juliana Hatfield (1967) American guitarist/singer-songwriter and author
"Noblesse Oblige"
Juliana's Pony: Total System Failure (2000)
Context: I showed you how to touch a star
I helped you forget who you are
Baby, you can drive my car
Over to the right side of the tracksYou pushed your greatest chance away
But still I really want to sayI forgive you.
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
"My Feelings" (p. 179)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
“Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”
Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper
Variant: well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“Never, ever, sacrifice what you want the most, for what you want the.”
James A. Owen (1969) Illustrator
Source: Drawing Out The Dragons: A Meditation on Art, Destiny, and the Power of Choice
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Dialogue between Russell and his daughter Katharine, as quoted in My Father – Bertrand Russell (1975)
Attributed from posthumous publications