6,169 Quotes About Needs

Despite all of our incessant tinkering, we can’t manufacture the things we most desperately need. And if perchance we do, they will never be more than pathetically emaciated facsimiles that will leave us emaciated. And until we finally realize that we can only ‘find’ these things, we will never sense any compulsion to ‘find’ God.

When people hurt it is because they feel they are going to lose something. The questions to ask is: What?

Men can dig wells, but they can’t create water.

What you value at the highest level needs to be in alignment with your partner or you will have conflict.

Christmas embodies everything that I need. However, everything that I need is often made up of a lot of stuff I don’t want.

Frogs, ducks, rhinos, octopuses – whatever you desire. The world will be built new for you every morning. If you stay here, you can have whatever you want.’ Coraline sighed. ‘You really don’t understand, do you?’ she said. ‘I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted? Just like that, and it didn’t mean anything. What then?

Surviving is about need. Living is about want.

If all you do is think about what you need, you’re no better than an animal in the woods, and no smarter either. To be human, you’ve got to want. It makes you smarter and stronger.

We get so beat down by what we need, sometimes we forget how to want.