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Quotes About Neediness

We're very needy people, you know.
~ Alex Van Halen
I'm needy, I need approval in everything I do.
~ Gregg Wallace
in the lower self, love is neediness, "chemistry" or infatuation, possession, strong admiration, or even worship—in short, traditional romantic love. Many people who grew up in troubled homes and who experienced a stifling of their Child Within become stuck at these lower levels or ways of experiencing love.
~ Charles L. Whitfield
I want someone special. I want to be loved and to receive love; to have someone there for me. My hunger for this is so great that I fear it's too much to ask anyone for. I'm afraid that if the volunteer coordinator did go out with me, I'd share all this with her at once, and though she'd be compassionate, she'd be scared off because she'd perceive me as needy.
~ Cheryl Strayed
And there was something else about him that quickly became evident, a raw emotional neediness that brought out powerfully maternal feelings in the elderly woman. Something about the nearly sixty-year-old Mary Martin
~ Harold Schechter
a raw emotional neediness that brought out powerfully maternal feelings in the elderly woman. Something about the nearly sixty-year-old Mary Martin
~ Harold Schechter
Jesus modeled to us how we are to relate to God. When we become that mindful of our position, our purpose, and our neediness, we, too, will humble ourselves.
~ Leslie Vernick
I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.
~ Craig Kilborn
How, with all your education, do you come to be more needy than your mother?
~ Tsitsi Dangarembga
Greene was insecure, needy, insatiable, interested in variation, and always willing to have a go.
~ Paul Theroux
Now the movie stars beg people to follow their Zing feeds. They send pleading messages asking everyone to smile at them. And holy fuck, the mailing lists! Everyone's a junk mailer. You know how I spend an hour every day? Thinking of ways to unsubscribe to mailing lists without hurting anyone's feelings. There's this new neediness—it pervades everything.
~ Dave Eggers
They do this with women. Their teachers, their friends' mothers. Well, you saw it at the restaurant. They sort of throw themselves at them. It breaks my heart because what is it going to look like in ten years with girls their age? All that neediness.
~ Lily King
He had found my worst weakness: I was one of those people who was desperate to be needed, to matter to someone.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Are you a peice of Saran Wrap? No Well then why are you acting so clingy?
~ Lisi Harrison
I have concluded that the more we seek the Lord, with a passion for His worthiness, the more we are gripped with our neediness. Adoration cultivates desperation.
~ Daniel Henderson
He is worthy. I am needy." I have concluded that the more we seek the Lord, with a passion for His worthiness, the more we are gripped with our neediness. Adoration cultivates desperation.
~ Daniel Henderson
She only knew that they intimidated her, with their savage candor and their awful neediness, which invariably left her feeling inadequate and helpless.
~ Unknown
There is no neediness in desire ... there is no caretaking in desire. Caretaking is mightily loving, [but] it's a powerful anti-aphrodisiac.
~ Esther Perel
let us not expect too much from our own hearts here below. At our best we shall find in ourselves daily cause for humiliation, and discover that we are needy debtors to mercy and grace every hour.
~ J.C. Ryle
Unrealistic neediness is actually greediness in disguise.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
People in everyday life can sniff out the neediness of a performer trying to earn love.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
No, it's not wrong to need people. But some of our biggest disappointments in life are the result of expectations we have of others that they can't ever possibly meet. That's when the desire to connect becomes an unrealistic need. Unrealistic neediness is actually greediness in disguise. It's saying, "My needs and desires deserve to tap into or possibly even deplete yours." This will never set a relationship up for success.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
En muhtaç durumdakilerin en nefret etti?i ?ey minnettarl?kt?r, s?rf kendilerini yeniden iyi hissetmek için ilk f?rsatta sald?r?rlar.
~ Madeline Miller
Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out. And the way out is through the mind, by choosing our thoughts.
~ Robert Kiyosaki