Our Needs Quotes

105 quotes by 92 authors

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to… — Emile M. Cioran
It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith which lays hold on God,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Notice carefully every word here. It is not our prayer which draws Jesus into our hearts. Nor is it our prayer which moves Jesus to… — Ole Hallesby
To pray is nothing more involved than to open the door, giving Jesus access to our needs and permitting Him to exercise His own power… — Ole Hallesby
Sometimes we have to lose our way to find out what we really want, for we often ignore our needs until we are lost. — Leon Brown
Human beings are not intrinsically selfish, which isolates us from others. We are essentially social animals who depend on others to meet our needs. We… — Dalai Lama
We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and children have suffered not only… — Cesar Chavez
Time, like money, is measured by our needs. — George Eliot
The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has been organized into… — John Dewey
I am convinced that there is no simple formula or technique that I could give you or that you could give your students that would… — Richard G. Scott
Like so much of what is worthwhile in life, our needs for friendship are often best met in the home. If our children feel friendship… — Marlin K. Jensen
Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin… — Sven Birkerts
For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much in taxes from… — George McGovern
In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call "The Morning of the Open Heart," in which… — E. Stanley Jones
When our needs are permitted to grow to an extremity, and all visible hopes fail, then to have relief given wonderfully enhances the price of… — John Flavel
A century of partial tolerance gave us Jews access to your world. In that period the great attempt was made, by advance guards of reconciliation,… — Maurice Samuel
And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and… — Remy de Gourmont
Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our… — Carl Rogers
It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on… — Emile Durkheim
In our culture, most of us have been trained to ignore our own wants and to discount our needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

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