“There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need… you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.”
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie
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“Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.”
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: The Darkest Night
“Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.”
Emas non quod opus est, sed quod necesse est. Quod non opus est, asse carum est.
Cato the Elder (-234–-149 BC) politician, writer and economist (0234-0149)
As quoted by Seneca (Epistles, 94)
“What you need isn’t always what you want.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
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Sarah Strohmeyer (1950) American writer
Source: Sweet Love
“The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done.”
Christopher Paolini book Brisingr
Variant: The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done. This is what fate demands of us.
Source: Brisingr
David Duke (1950) American White nationalist, white supremacist, writer, right-wing politician, and a former Republican Louisiana …
Interview with Evelyn Rich (March 1985)
“Wish for what you want, work for what you need.
-Carmen's grandmother”
Ann Brashares The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
