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Quotes About Need

If a person is argued into submission or politically subdued in one area but the underlying emotional need isn't met, he'll simply create another headache somewhere else.
~ Unknown
be absolved of guilt—not of suspicion. "Which is why I need the murderer
~ Unknown
So blind are we: with our bodily sickness and need we run to God; with the soul's sickness we run from Him, and are unwilling to come back before we are well, exactly as if there could be one God who could help the body, and another God who could help the soul; or as if we would help ourselves in spiritual need, although it really is greater than the bodily need. Such plan and counsel is of the devil.
~ Martin Luther
Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
I need you because I love you.
~ Erich Fromm
I love you not because I need you, I need you because I love you.
~ Anonymous
Wherever I am, whatever I do, my only purpose in life is to see you a restless desire like the need to see the light in the morning.
~ Unknown
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
~ Unknown
Love is born in fire, is planted like a seed Love cannot give you everything, but it gives you what you need
~ Unknown
Philippians 4:6; Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, & thank him for all he has done.
~ Bible
Control is the inner disease of those who need stability and order to function.
~ Mary E. DeMuth
For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need" (4:15–16 NASB).
~ Mary E. DeMuth
It was in the sorrows, in the fear, in the need, that the knowing gained flight, and I had much of all of these.
~ Mary E. Pearson
soul sucking vampire, a bottomless well of need. An incubus, draining my life from me. He was not my shadow; he was the entire darkness crushing me.
~ Unknown
Every now and then, I felt a teeny-weeny bit of guilt about what I was doing. But I needed the money more than I needed a good conscience.
~ Unknown
We know we need, and so we acquire and eat and eat, past the point of bodily fullness, trying to sate a greater need. Ashamed of this, we turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how to not-need.
~ Marya Hornbacher
It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of deadly contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength. A wish to prove that you need nothing, that you have no human hungers, which turns on itself and becomes a searing need for the hunger itself.
~ Marya Hornbacher
The starting point for improvement is to recognize the need.
~ Masaaki Imai
Man braucht nur eine Insel Allein im weiten Meer. Man braucht nur einen Menschen, den aber braucht man sehr.
~ Unknown
What You Need… One only needs an island alone and lost at sea. One only needs one person, but this to have is key.
~ Unknown
The people who came were not always the ones who most needed to escape: they were the ones most capable of escaping.
~ Masha Gessen
The people, they need someone to live through. Trust me, I used to be in roller derby back in the day. People need a hero.
~ Mat Johnson
A golden spoon is useless when the soup bowl is empty.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
How much extra happiness am I acquiring? Why am I wanting so much more than I need? Wouldn't I be happier learning to appreciate what I already have?
~ Matt Haig