Tell Me What You Want Quotes

“The desire to be noticed has always been an essential part of the human condition.”
― Charlotte Fox Weber, What We Want: A Journey Through Twelve of Our Deepest Desires

“One of the biggest obstacles to finding real love can be hanging on to a rigid story about how it's supposed to be.”
― Charlotte Fox Weber , What We Want: A Journey Through Twelve of Our Deepest Desires

“The artist Georges Rouault wrote: 'An artist is like a galley slave, rowing toward a distant shore that he will never reach.' We all have a distant shore we'll never reach. But we can get so much richness from life while accepting that we are always rowing. Stretch yourself to consider the stories of desire. Learning never ends, and the particulars of life experiences are remarkable. Keep asking yourself what you want, and while you see the distant shore, notice and appreciate where you are, where you've come from, and all that it means to be you.”
― Charlotte Fox Weber, Tell Me What You Want: A Therapist and Her Clients Explore Our 12 Deepest Desires

“Time is a boundary for all mortals. Learning to make solid choices within the givens helps us come closer to living the lives we want. It's a forever calibration and requires ongoing fine-tuning.”
― Charlotte Fox Weber, Tell Me What You Want: A Therapist and Her Clients Explore Our 12 Deepest Desires

“Freedom is always a question of degree rather than an absolute good that we do or do not possess.”
― Charlotte Fox Weber, Tell Me What You Want: A Therapist and Her Clients Explore Our 12 Deepest Desires

“I love a line quoted by Freud: ‘What we cannot reach flying, we must reach limping.”
― Charlotte Fox Weber, Tell Me What You Want: A Therapist and Her Clients Explore Our 12 Deepest Desires