Quotes on Needs

I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity

What kind of husband am I gonna be if I can't even hold my wife's hand? _x000D_ ...but I realized I may not have hands to hold my wife's hand, but when the time comes, I'll be able to hold her heart. I don't need hands to hold her heart.

We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.

The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.

Discover this mystery: as you help others face their days, you put life into your own. And life is exactly what many people need.

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.

We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.

A resourceful person will always make opportunity fit his or her needs.

Getting straight with your money is as complicated as a trip to the grocery store: _x000D_ You need a comparison shop, add and subtract, stick with a plan, and ask questions- nothing more.

We are surrounded by those in need of our attention, our encouragement, our support, our comfort, our kindness... We are the Lord’s hands here upon the earth, with the mandate to serve and to lift His children. He is dependent upon each of us

I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there

You don't need to be a scientist to know Earth's age or that life evolved. You just need be one who embraces objective truths

A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive institutions. A decent society should maximize the possibilities for this fundamental human characteristic to be realized.

You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?

It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.

Before you leave the house, you need to make up your mind that you’re going to stay positive and enjoy the day no matter what comes your way. You have to decide ahead of time.

I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light.

We often wonder why God gives and takes, constricts and expands. What we forget is that human beings understand things by their opposites. Without dark, we can’t understand light. Without hardship, we wouldn’t *experience* ease. Without the existence of deprivation and loss, we couldn’t grasp the need for gratitude or the virtue of patience. And without separation, we wouldn’t taste the sweetness of reunion. Glory be to the one who gives—even when He takes.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.