Quotes About Needs

Lead a simple life. First reduce your greeds. Then reduce your needs.

It's not that God never listens, he does, but he listens to our genuine wishes and needs, not to our lusts and fancies.

The person capable of distinguishing between his desires and needs and realizes what should be preferred in the ever changing situations of life, never faces failures and disappointments.

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature

You have a lovely soul, of a rare quality, an artist's nature, don't ever let it go without what it needs.

But life, gradually revealing to me the permanence of our needs, had taught me that if a person is unobtainable we have to settle for someone else, and I felt that what I had asked of Albertine could have been supplied by another, like Mlle de Stermaria.

Everybody wants. Without that, what are you? Just an animal taking care of needs.

Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much.

But I think we often settle for sex when we want love. And we often want love when we need something else, like a good job or a chance to go back to school.

A heart may desire a thing powerfully indeed, but that heart's desire might be what a person least needs, for her health, for her continuing happiness.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

You are an extraordinary woman. You have a purpose in this world, and hiding behind a fictional story that you're broken or incomplete is not it. The world needs you. It needs that very special something you knew you had when you were a little girl.

Cutting and eating disorders serve such deep-seated psychological and physiological needs that to treat only the symptoms—by force feeding or hiding all sharp implements—will generally only set up a power struggle between parent and child, patient and therapist. If the coping strategy one has depended on for so long is suddenly taken away, a cutter or anorexic or bulimic will feel even more overwhelmed and out of control as years of suppressed emotions come roaring to the surface.

The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.

Profits are the driving force of the market economy. The greater the profits, the better the needs of the consumers are supplied... He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.

The good thing about growing up is that you discover yourself. You get to know what you need and what you don't need.

Sacrificing all our individual needs doesn't strengthen a relationship. Mutually supporting each others personal growth does.

There is no power shortage in heaven, and God is never in a recession. But His grace is sufficient to meet every need.

De alguna manera el hipotálamo busca la satisfacción inmediata de una serie de necesidades sin prestar demasiada atención a las consecuencias. Es un «quiero esto y lo quiero ya».

Years ago my friend Alan Groff shared this definition: "love is the accurate estimate and the adequate supply of another person's need.

The greatest conspiracy on the planet is that we need to oppress, kill, and pollute in order to get our needs met

What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience.

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you're telling the story of a future