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Quotes About Need

At some point my need for a solution was replaced by the poetry of my continuous failure.
~ Charles Simic
Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
~ Charlie Byrd
What is love anyway? From my new vantage point, I realize that love is nothing more than a messy conglomeration of need, desperation, fear of death and insecurity about penis size.
~ Charlie Kaufman
She saw him as a boy, standing in the kitchen, his clothes tattered and torn, his dark hair in need of a cut and taming. In his dirty hands he held out the bed to her, his only words, "For you.
~ Charlotte Featherstone
His life is like your life and my life and all the lives of all the people who are reading these words right now. It's a roiling stew of fear and need and desire and love and the hunger to be loved. And mostly, it's the latter.
~ Cheryl Strayed
enough compassion to make us feel safe within our broken need, and enough wisdom to hold on to hope.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Because like you, this girl is a person who needs a lot of love.' 'Love? I need a lot of love?' 'Of course, you do. And everyone else does too. Funny we never say it. It is okay to scream in public if you are hungry "I'm starving". It is okay to make a fuss if you are tired "I'm so sleepy". But somehow we cannot say "I just need some more love". Why can't we say it, Shyam? It is as basic a need.
~ Chetan Bhagat
There is no burnt rice to a hungry person.
~ Philippine Proverb
Spiritual teachers appear when we are in need, appear when we are ready, reminding us of who we are, reminding us of what we know, pointing to our essence, pointing us towards each other, redirecting us to God, leading us to oneness, Spiritual Teachers remind us there is only one reality, Presence
~ H.W. Mann
The purpose behind each individual sermon is to secure some moral action. We need to know what that action is.
~ Haddon W. Robinson
To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know.
~ Hannah Arendt
I am not fair save to the King, Though fair my royal dress, His kingly grace is lavished on My need and worthlessness. My blemishes he will not see But loves the beauty that shall be.
~ Hannah Hurnard
A feeling of real need is always a good enough reason to pray.
~ Hannah Whitall Smith
Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.
~ Harry Crews
At my age, I find I must be careful of my sleep, for I need it more but have more trouble winning it.
~ Harry Turtledove
the unconscious is trying to resurrect the past is not a matter of habit or blind compulsion but of a compelling need to heal old childhood wounds.
~ Harville Hendrix
My mother wanted to be needed, but she never wanted to need anyone else. She would be the one baking cherry pies. She would be the one cleaning gutters and painting ceilings and pulling ivy out of the backyard. This is so often the paradox of truly, astoundingly capable people. They're never quite capable of sitting back and allowing the people around them to be the capable ones.
~ Heather Havrilesky
I ain't need no proof of puberty at fucking six o'clock on a Wednesday morning.
~ Lawrence Hill
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
~ Le Corbusier
So, if you wake up with the new sunrise and all your dreams are still as new. And happiness is what you need so bad, girl, the answer lies with you.
~ Led Zeppelin
Cruelty is not taught. It is as certain as a compass point. One can be instructed in the specifics of cruelty, like one can be taught to use a spoon, a knife, a fork, but even without these skills a man will still eat. The need is with us.
~ Lee Thomas
I'm not a math tutor," I said. "I don't feel the need to check your work.
~ Lemony Snicket
Acusaba la falta de su compañía cada día y casi a todas horas, y la necesitaba demasiado para sentir otra cosa que no fuese irritación
~ Jane Austen
We must not fail to give our full attention to the spreading of the Good News and to prayer. But we must also care for those who are in need. That, too, is God's commandment to us. We must be careful not to neglect that task. "I have spent the afternoon in prayer, as have other apostles, and now we are ready to act. We would like you to select seven men—men who are full of the Spirit and wisdom—and we will turn this responsibility over to them.
~ Janette Oke