Quotes on Needs

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.

What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

France has more need of me than I have need of France.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad with peoples you feels sick all the time like you needs the doctor.

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent. We educate the doctors, and then don't give 'em a green card.

Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.