Quotes About Needs

Conversations often drag on and on, fulfilling no one's needs, because it is unclear whether the initiator of the conversation has gotten what she or he wanted.

Anger is a result of life-alienating thinking that is disconnected from needs. It indicates that we have moved up to our head to analyze and judge somebody rather than focus on what we are needing and not getting.

At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs.

Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.

Children needed space more than overprotection. Parents who hovered were meeting their own needs, not their children's.

Augustine explains: The flesh needs many things even for this life, and this, too, it seeks from God, because not only spiritual things but also earthly things are to be sought from no one but God.

In everything we do or experience we should have a happy heart and know that for Christ's sake we are in grace and that everything we do pleases God, even the fact that out of the needs of the body we eat and drink and do our work.

Money, success, integration into a solid, recognised world - all these factors contribute to an economy of the self. There is no longer any need to think about your needs, your mood, your behaviour, your friends, or your life, no need to understand or to look any further: the world you're in provides all that right away.

la presión demográfica no es un factor estático, sino un proceso de deterioro progresivo de la balanza entre el esfuerzo humano en la producción de alimentos y la satisfacción de necesidades, por una parte, y el resultado de tal esfuerzo, por otra.

The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without or making do. The wise person can distinguish...between basic needs and extravagant wants. Some find budgeting extremely painful, but I promise you, it is never fatal.

Sadly, most women don't understand that Christ is the only one who can ultimately satisfy the deepest yearnings of a woman's heart. So they become disillusioned when their husbands don't meet all of their needs, or they go through a series of revolving-door relationships, looking for a man who will.

The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man's unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure, and the world needs masterpieces.

life's most basic needs—his sight—he struggles to accept the possibility that his blindness may be permanent. Enter psychologist Sara Hamilton,

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Love is the only cement that can hold this broken community together.When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs fo my brothers.

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

Children need food, comforting, shelter, touch, smiles, eye contact, and the opportunity to play and grow up safe, strong, and healthy. Meet the new toddler's needs on demand, and she will gradually learn to delay gratification and become more and more able to be responsible for meeting some of her own needs as she grows and develops.

To love and be loved is the most powerful of human needs Clare Morgan

customers do not need scope. They need to have business goals accomplished within some constraints of time and cost.

When you fulfill your needs, you generate the energy to meet your child's needs.

In her presence, I was reminded again of why I was an anoretic: fear. Of my needs, for food, for sleep, for touch, for simple conversation, for human contact, for love. I was an anoretic because I was afraid of being human. Implicit in human contact is the exposure of the self, the interaction of the selves. The self I'd had, once upon a time, was too much. Now there was no self at all. I was a blank.

Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I started making up a world where my needs wouldn´t exist at all.

we are all driven by the urge to meet our needs. What if one of our most fundamental needs is to have things be just so?

A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs.