Quotes about need

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“Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.”

“All you need is love.”

“As for the goddess’s answer, I did not care. I would have no need of her. I did not plan to live after he was gone.”

“We teach best what we most need to learn.”

“I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.”

“Parting is all we know of Heaven,
and all we need of Hell.”

“You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but in the very least you need a beer.”

“A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.”

“I wish I wasn’t a girl who needed so much but a little free creature that slept in deserts and ran on clouds and lived on lilies.”

“When you reach out to hurting people, that’s when God is going to make sure your needs are supplied. When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.”

“Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been hurt.”

“That's what this country needs -- more books!”

“I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour
to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my
world.”

“There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.”

“Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need people. It can exist free and wild, running from ear to ear without ever touching lips.”

“You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.”

“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.”

“Jesus insisted that the greatest ritual service is the service of human need. It is an odd thing to think that, with the possible exception of that day in the synagogue at Nazareth, we have no evidence that Jesus ever conducted a ‘church’ service in all his life on earth, but we have abundant evidence that he fed the hungry and comforted the sad and cared for the sick. Christian service is not the service of any liturgy or ritual; it is the service of human need. Christian service is not monastic retreat; it is involvement in all the tragedies and problems and demands of the human situation.”

“Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.”

“God lives in the place of praise. If we want to be where He is, we need to go to His address.”

“People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.”

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”

“You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it.”

“Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.”

“If I need you I'll give you a signal.'
'What signal?'
'I'll imitate the scream of a terrified little girl”

“but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?”

“He who has the truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.”

“And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.”

“A visiting pastor at our church in Plains once told a story about a priest from New Orleans. Father Flanagan’s parish lay in the central part of the city, close to many taverns. One night he was walking down the street and saw a drunk thrown out of a pub. The man landed in the gutter, and Father Flanagan quickly recognized him as one of his parishioners, a fellow named Mike. Father Flanagan shook the dazed man and said, “Mike!” Mike opened his eyes and Father Flanagan said, “You’re in trouble. If there is anything I can do for you, please tell me what it is.ℍ “Well, Father,” Mike replied, “I hope you’ll pray for me.” “Yes,” the priest answered, “I’ll pray for you right now.” He knelt down in the gutter and prayed, “Father, please have mercy on this drunken man.ℍ At this, a startled Mike woke up fully and said, “Father, please don’t tell God I’m drunk.ℍ Sometimes we don’t feel much of a personal relationship between God and ourselves, as though we have a secret life full of failures and sins that God knows nothing about. We want to involve God only when we plan to give thanks or when we’re in trouble and need help. But the rest of our lives, we’d rather keep to ourselves.”

“The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.”

“He had the kind of real deep tan that rich people spent ages trying to achieve with expensive holidays and bits of tinfoil, when really all you need to do to obtain one is work your arse off in the open air everyday.”

“I need to know that wherever I end up, in the stars or in the gutter, you’re along for the ride.”

“Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.”

“Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.”

“this satsangh?’ You just drop that. You don’t have to get anything, okay? You don’t have to benefit from this. Just waste half a day and go. (Laughter) Really. ‘What should I get out of my meditation?’ Nothing. Just waste fifteen-twenty minutes every day. So do not meditate; just learn to waste some time. Nothing needs to happen. This is not about resting; this is not about becoming healthy; this is not about becoming enlightened; this is not about reaching heaven. All this is just wasting time. When you are not trying to be anything, not trying to get anywhere, you are being.”

“I've learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.”

“The world order needs a major overhaul.”

“Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.”

“I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.”

“Really! Between you and Eragon, I seem to spend most of my time among the Varden healing people to silly to realize they need to avoid getting chopped into tiny little pieces”

“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.”

“You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.”

“It must be awful to feel you're not needed.”

“Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need.”

“If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.”

“I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.”

“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”

“Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.”

“One of the most poisonous of all Satan’s whispers is simply, “Things will never change.” That lie kills expectation, trapping our heart forever in the present. To keep desire alive and flourishing, we must renew our vision for what lies ahead. Things will not always be like this. Jesus has promised to “make all things new.” Eye has not seen, ear has not heard all that God has in store for his lovers, which does not mean “we have no clue so don’t even try to imagine,” but rather, you cannot outdream God. Desire is kept alive by imagination, the antidote to resignation. We will need imagination, which is to say, we will need hope.”

“Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.”

“The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.”

“Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.”

“If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.”

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”

“You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.”

“The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your voice away with a word.”

“If you’ll dare to take your mind off your troubles, get your mind off your own needs and, instead, seek to be a blessing to other people, God will do more for you than you could even ask or think.”

“Sometimes - history needs a push.”

“Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say something real, something with wings and a heart, but the birds I wanted settled on my shoulders and head only later when I was alone and not in need of words.”

“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals… They are not our brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life…”

“Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.”

“A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest.”

“The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled down to try to work how who was to blame.”

“Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don't live in a world all of your own.”

“And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.”

“We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.”

“When I ask how old your toddler is, I don't need to hear '27 months.' 'He's two' will do just fine. He's not a cheese. And I didn't really care in the first place.”

“I don't need a guarantee if I have you.”

“If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.”

“Women always need other women to lean on. They become friends in order to hate each other better. The more they hate each other, the more inseparable they become.”

“You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history”

“The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.”

“Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.”

“Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.”

“Everything terrible is something that needs our love.”

“Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you've got.”

“Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it- memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.”

“In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.”

“Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.”

“You don't need to travel, laughter is an instant vacation”

“A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.”

“I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.”

“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.”

“Before I could cry or scream I whirled around and stalked to my bedroom, slamming the door behind me.
I hope they all drown.

"Zoey your mother and I need to speak with you."
Great. Clearly they didn't drown.”

“Every child, every person needs to know that they are a source of joy; every child, every person, needs to be celebrated. Only when all of our weaknesses are accepted as part of our humanity can our negative, broken self-images be transformed.”

“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”

“To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.”

“No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.”

“People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.”

“Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.”

“I need the sea because it teaches me”

“I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this--I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.”

“How we need another soul to cling to.”

“God knew my needs and took care accordingly.”

“The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.”

“Life (as you call it) is an opportunity for you to know experientially what you already know conceptually. You need learn nothing to do this. You need merely remember what you already know, and act on it.”

“English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England.”

“Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.”

“Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.”