Necessary Quotes

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If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Personal power involves producing success through modeling what works and taking consistent action towards your goals. At the same time, you have to internalize behavioral… — Tony Robbins
Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence? — Sathya Sai Baba
Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the… — Leo Buscaglia
Our real journey in life is interior; It is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of… — Thomas Merton
When a tire blows, you simply accept that this is the here and now reality of your life. You've lost the tire, but that doesn't… — Ken Keyes Jr.
When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are… — Margaret J. Wheatley
When you are in touch with that dimension within yourself-and being in touch with it is your natural state, all your actions and relationships will… — Eckhart Tolle
In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to profit by the… — Matthew Henry
We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent creation of the… — George Julius Poulett Scrope
There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible: truths… — Gottfried Leibniz
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one… — Archibald MacLeish
True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law. — Oliver Goldsmith
Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter. — Eileen Caddy
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. — Leon Trotsky
Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere - in the closing of the door, in the person who needs you,… — Mother Teresa
You've got to be able to act when it's necessary to act. And you've got to be able to act where the threat is. — George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen
The ego can exist only if you take yourself and everything seriously. Nothing kills the ego like playfulness, like laughter. When you start taking life… — Rajneesh
Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth… — Mahatma Gandhi
Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man. — Samuel Johnson
A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing… — William Hazlitt
When we are not honest, we are cut off from a significant resource of ourselves, a vital dimension that is necessary for unity and wholeness. — Clark Moustakas
We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part… — Michel de Montaigne
A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul. — Leo Tolstoy

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