Quotes About Need

Always that riptide compulsion dragging you down into the water, that need to know overriding the fear.

Live with your age, but be not its creation; labour for your contemporaries, but do for them what they need, and not what they praise'. F. Schiller, Aesthetical and Philosophical Essays (Boston: Francis A. Niccolls, 1902), p. 33.

If anyone was ever cognizant of the need and function of 'litanies', it was Kafka.

What we don't have now we don't need now. Possibly His very withholding is in order that the boy may learn, at this crucial juncture in his life, to turn to God in prayer for a deeply felt need.

Jesus comes into our lives in these places of need. And if we recognize Him because of our need, then we can receive whatever it is that He is prepared to offer us whether it's the grace of forgiveness or the patience to wait for the answer to that prayer or healing or serenity in the midst of the worst times of your life. Whatever it is, you can receive it and say, "Thank You, Lord.

The truth is, you need your fear, for obvious reasons of basic survival.

Your ego is a wonderful servant, but it's a terrible master—because the only thing your ego ever wants is reward, reward, and more reward. And since there's never enough reward to satisfy, your ego will always be disappointed. Left unmanaged, that kind of disappointment will rot you from the inside out. An unchecked ego is what the Buddhists call "a hungry ghost"—forever famished, eternally howling with need and greed.

An unchecked ego is what the Buddhists call "a hungry ghost"—forever famished, eternally howling with need and greed.

You are my family. If we never have children, I will be disappointed, but if I never have you, I will be devastated. I love you. I need you. Please trust me enough to be my wife.

A great need of something to lean on, and a great weariness of independence and responsibility took possession of my soul; and looking round for support and comfort in that transitory mood, the emptiness of the present and the blankness of the future sent me back to the past with all its ghosts.

Anybody who doesn't want or need something is dead. And anyone who does need something can be hurt.

O son of Adam, if you have collected anything in excess of your actual need, you will act only as its trustee for someone else to use it.

Reason not the need, the man says. Need not the reason.

this apocalyptic need for magic

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total.

There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display.

Para sempre ou para nunca mais; ou tudo ou nada: Viveremos eternamente, ou tudo se aniquilará de vez? É uma tese, essa, que se impõe. Todo homem experimenta a necessidade de viver, de gozar, de amar e ser feliz.

Behold, I send the demon I know to relieve your need, An imperfect player at the perfect instrument Who takes in hand The Regulator of the World To keep the splendor from destroying us.

Across the room, Hale smiled slightly. 'We can draw you a diagram if you need it.' 'No thanks,' Nick said. 'I think I've got everyone but you.

Rome, Abby." I ignored him and turned to my aunt. "A month before my father disappeared, he needed you in Rome. Now I need you in Rome.

First, we are not selling something people may or may not need; we are offering a free gift that is the most vital news a person could ever know. Second, when you sell something, you are dependent on the product and on your ability to sell it. But with the gospel, we have resources not of this world.

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.

Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same.