827 Quotes About Need

As I sat down, though, I realized that you can get used to certain luxuries that you start to think they're necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you don't need them after all. There was a big difference between needing things and wanting things--though a lot of people had trouble telling the two apart--and at the ranch, I could see, we have pretty much everything we'd need but precious little else.

To lovers there.Most ladies the reason they are dumped and their relationship doesn't last is they made themselves to become a want than a need in a relationship.

At forty-three, I bought my first house. I’d wanted one like crazy. A house meant family, a happy childhood for my litttle girl and for the little girl self inside me. . . . I was soon overwhelmed by the upkeep and overcome by the yardwork. . . . In the bright light of closing, it was obvious: it was never a house I wanted; it was what a house symbolized to me. (254)

As our awareness of the world and who we are increases, we will grow to replace our needs with service, fear with love and scarcity with abundance.

I would guess that somewhere around ninety percent of the stuff that we refer to as love is what we ‘want’ love to be, but not what we ‘need’ love to be.

If I can live without that which I seek, I have errantly chosen to seek something that is not worth seeking.

What you need to be can change in an instant. What you want to be takes time and patience within yourself.

In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?

Pleasure is not a need, but an incentive.