“Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie:
A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.”

— George Herbert

The Temple (1633), The Church Porch

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Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest 1593–1633

Frederick Herzberg (1923–2000) American psychologist

Source: Work and the nature of man, 1966, p. 71

“Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself.”

Stephen King book The Stand

Source: The Stand

“[Twilight] argues that true love will triumph in the end, which may or may not be true, but if it's a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.”

John Green (1977) American author and vlogger

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“Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.”

Mark Buchanan (1961) American physicist

Source: The Holy Wild: Trusting in the Character of God

“If a woman with property needs the ballot, a woman who has nothing but her labor power needs two ballots.”

Gertrude Breslau Hunt (1869–1952)

Machinists' Monthly Journal

“What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, “It’s all your fault!”

Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.”

Clive Staples Lewis book The Problem of Pain

The Problem of Pain (1940)

“Art and science can best grow and develop in a society which cherishes freedom and which shows respect for the needs, the happiness and the dignity of human beings.”

Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896–1984) Czech Nobel prize laureate and scientist

Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes in 1947, Nobel banquet speech for award received in 1947, Nobel Foundation. Stockholm, Sweden. 1948 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1947/cori-cf/speech/