Our Own Needs Quotes
18 quotes by 17 authors
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
— Barbara Bush
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Building a world where we meet our own needs without denying future generations a healthy society is not impossible, as some would assert. The question…
— Christopher Flavin
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Now, we don't really believe these things - intellectually we know better - but we believe them viscerally, and live by them, and they cause…
— George Saunders
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Religious ideas such as the idea of God have functioned as regulative ideals for us to aspire after: we too could become unified and capable…
— Don Cupitt
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Most of us are taught from an early age to pay far more attention to signals coming from other people than from within. We are…
— Nathaniel Branden
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One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others. When…
— Dalai Lama
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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…
— Nhat Hanh
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It is a kind of pride to insist that none of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for this is only…
— Thomas Merton
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Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that…
— Audre Lorde
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We must come together in ways that respect the solitude of the soul that avoid the unconscious violence we do when we try to save…
— Parker J. Palmer
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...if we expended all our energies solely on taking care of our own needs we would stop growing. In that respect what we call "soul"…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings.…
— Madonna Ciccone
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To be free is to put justice, truth and service to others over and above our personal gain or our need for recognition, power, honor…
— Jean Vanier
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We have our own needs and desires.Most of our desires, we are holding when considering the value of attachments or relationships.
— Sumesh Nair
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The most painful thing is losing our self in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that we are special too. Yes, help…
— Glen Rambharack
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Its great be kind to others, until we do it the without sacrificing our own needs.
— Senoraroy
Who Wrote These Our Own Needs Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 18 Our Own Needs Quotes as follows: