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Quotes About Necessity

To be happy in life, you must learn the difference between what you WANT vs NEED.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
Love, its when you come across a person in your life whom you just can't let go. Your life just can't continue without them.
~ Unknown
Being strong is not an option for those who want to survive, it is a necessity.
~ Terry Mark
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
~ Unknown
An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
~ Man Ray
We really have to ask for indispensable things, but when we do it with humility, we are not failing in the commandment of Jesus; on the contrary, we are acting like the poor who extend their hand [10] to receive what is necessary for them; if they are rebuked they are not surprised, as no one owes them anything.
~ Unknown
bridges were thus essential
~ Unknown
I have every useless thing in the world in my house there. The only thing wanting is the necessary thing, a great patch of open sky like this. Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life, little boy," he added, turning to me. "You have a soul in you of rare quality, an artist's nature; never let it starve for lack of what it needs.
~ Marcel Proust
Thus I had already reached the conclusion that we are in no wise free in the presence of a work of art, that we do not create it as we please but that it pre-exists in us and we are compelled as though it were a law of nature to discover it because it is at once hidden from us and necessary.
~ Marcel Proust
He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity;
~ John Milton
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
~ John Milton
People are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home, that wilderness is a necessity.
~ John Muir
Let us then understand at once that change or variety is as much a necessity to the human heart and brain in buildings as in books; that there is no merit, though there is some occasional use, in monotony; and that we must no more expect to derive either pleasure or profit from an architecture whose ornaments are of one pattern, and whose pillars are of one proportion, than we should of a universe in which the clouds were all of one shape, and the trees all of one shape.
~ John Ruskin
As the art of life is learned, it will be found at last that all lovely things are also necessary; a wild flower by the wayside, tended corn, wild birds and creatures of the forest, as well as the tended cattle; because man doth not live by bread only.
~ John Ruskin
As the art of life is learned, it will be found at last that all lovely things are also necessary: - the wild flower by the wayside, as well as the tended corn; and the wild birds and creatures of the forest, as well as the tended cattle; because man doth not live by bread only, but also by the desert manna; by every wondrous word and unknowable work of God
~ John Ruskin
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives… Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved.
~ John Ruskin
The Lord in his wisdom gave money to very curious people, perhaps because they'd starve without. -Liza
~ John Steinbeck
No se necesita valor para hacer una cosa cuando es lo único que puedes hacer.
~ John Steinbeck
It is possible that the chauffeurs of Moscow are very rich and happy people, but they are necessary, since it is difficult for a foreigner to get a driver's license. One correspondent took his examination for a license, but he failed on the question, "What does not belong on an automobile?" He could think of many things that did not belong on an automobile and finally picked one, but he was wrong. The proper answer was "mud.
~ John Steinbeck
It's need that makes all the trouble.
~ John Steinbeck
Prayer never brought in no side-meat.
~ John Steinbeck
He remembered hearing a doctor say, I love to deliver a baby, because if I do my work well, there's joy at the end of it. The sheriff had thought often of that remark. It seemed to him that if he did his work well there was sorrow at the end of it for somebody. The fact that it was necessary was losing its weight with him. He would be retiring soon whether he wanted to or not.
~ John Steinbeck
Family fun is as necessary to modern living as a kitchen refrigerator.
~ Walt Disney
How can something as necessary as breathing be immoral?
~ Susan Scott, Dragons Will Fall