Quotes about Need

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

No psychological message is so open to question as that which tells us that we have nothing left to do or to give.

The teacher you need is the person you're living with.

     When the universe needs something, a desire is instilled to discover, invent or create it. If one person who is called upon to do the actual discovering, inventing or creating doesn't complete it in a timely manner, another or others are called upon to complete the work.

You don't always need what you want, and you don't always want what you need.

You don't always need what you want, and you don't always want what you need.

Spiritual growth requires the acknowledgement of one`s need to grow.

Help People Know They're Loved (Part 2) Spend the rest of your life giving people back to themselves, that they might love themselves. And show them by how you are with them that you know there is nothing they are lacking, nothing they are missing, nothing they need, nothing they are not.
Tomorrow's God
Neale Donald Walsch
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Thinking before acting often eliminates the need to apologize.

"What you want isnt always what you need and what you need isnt always what you want. Therefore sacrifices have to be made in order for you to achive happiness."-Zack King

Imagine being invited to a banquet where you bring your own meal-
and you brought a steak ,baked potatoes and asparagus with Boston cream pie for desert.  

Joining you at that table were a sampling of the human diversity from your community.  
Across from you  at this table was a mother with children who had nothing to bring-
how much would you enjoy your meal without sharing it? 
 
Marianne Goldweber
Spiritualist-Minister

We only see what we really wanted to see,
And hear what we are dying to hear,
No one realizes that we hold this world
In our palms, being buried in this oblivion
Then this thought saves us from death,
and every misfortune that comes before it.

Where talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation.

The person who is at peace and has achieved a state of calmness needs no thing. He or she has everything. What was it that you needed?

... I was struck by the use, by all three, of the word it.  Suzanne is "entitled to have it."  Janet is compelled to "get rid of it."  Kathleen needs to "get it out."  It is no doubt shorthand; the word may refer generally to the galaxy of feeling that surrounds female appetite, to the blend of longing and constraint that underlies it, but I suspect it also refers to that ocean of sorrow, to a woman's awereness of its depth and her horror at the volume of need it inspires.

Safeguards are often irksome, but sometimes convenient, and if one needs them at all, one is apt to need them badly.

Generosity needs to come back to the workplace in a big way.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.