Quotes on Needs

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

We need to understand that there is no formula for how women should lead their lives. that is why we must respect the choices that each woman makes for herself and her family. Every woman deserves the chance to realize her God-given potential.

Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.

He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.

You need never be discouraged or afraid. The way through difficulties has always been prepared for you, and you will find it if you exercise faith.

We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman.

We discover that all human beings are just like us, so we are able to relate to them more easily. That generates a spirit of friendship in which there is less need to hide what we feel or what we are doing.

There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason they write so very little. But we do. We have so much we want to say and figure out.

I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.

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.

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind.

How we need another soul to cling to.

One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.

Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing those at the bottom. They practically need a telescope. The pharaohs of ancient Egypt probably didn't was a lot of time thinking about the people who build their pyramids, either.

Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say something real, something with wings and a heart, but the birds I wanted settled on my shoulders and head only later when I was alone and not in need of words.