Source: Full Dark, No Stars
“Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.”
Variant: Adventures do occur, but not punctually. Life rarely gives us what we want at the moment we consider appropriate.
Source: A Passage to India
“Evil corrupts, Bael, by promising us what we want, and telling us that it is good.”
Source: Rigante series, Stormrider, Ch. 13
Context: You think evil corrupts men by saying come with me and I will turn you into a merciless killer, and damn your soul for eternity? Who would agree to such a bargain? Evil corrupts, Bael, by promising us what we want, and telling us that it is good. Evil talks of the end justifying the means. It speaks of distant goals — aye, and of golden ages. It seduces, Bael. It does not threaten. Not at first.
“We… sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.”
Source: Lord, Have Mercy: The Healing Power of Confession
“Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.”
Source: The Goldfinch
“We must be what we are and not what they want us to be.”
Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)
Context: We need to work in a job that we like and always be peaceful people, to do what we like. We must be what we are and not what they want us to be. To love what we love without obligation, without neurotic knots that we cannot untie. To desire what we want and to create what we are capable of making. To live with a certain prosperity, without wasting. But a prosperity for everyone, not a prosperity based on exploiting others. And, of course, it is necessary to become immortals and for this we have to live as if we were immortals thinking that we have a thousand years more to do what we want but without forgetting that in ten seconds we can die.
“Our records must be scrupulous, whether they show what we want them to show or not.”
Source: Jack Faust (1997), Chapter 9, “The Plague Kitchen” (p. 148)
“Cats aren't special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no.”
Veralidaine "Daine" Sarrasri
