Own Needs Quotes

85 Own Needs quotes by 76 unique authors

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
If you’ll dare to take your mind off your troubles, get your mind off your own needs and, instead, seek to be a blessing to… — Joel Osteen
loneliness has its own needs! — Eric Jerome Dickey
Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values — Marshall B. Rosenberg
love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed… — Nora Roberts
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the… — Nicholas Sparks
I have decided to leave Clea’s last letter un-answered. I no longer wish to coerce anyone, to make promises, to think of life in terms… — Lawrence Durrell
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
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
Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so ordinary that no… — Ian Mcewan
Truth was funny, because it was an insistent thing, maybe as powerful and insistent as some force of nature, the push of water or wind.… — Deb Caletti
Mary is a very well-written typical eldest child in that she puts her own needs at the forefront... She's not as inclined to conciliate or… — Jessica Fellowes
If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret… — John Gray
The leftist is anti-individualistic... He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his own ability to solve his… — Theodore Kaczynski
When a woman submits to a man, it's the most precious gift she can give. Herself. Unreservedly. The man has to respect and honor that… — Maya Banks
Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in need of refreshment, it isn't easy to… — Elisabeth Elliot
Authentic love is obviously something good. When we love we become most fully human. But people often consider themselves loving when actually they are possessive… — Pope Benedict XVI
...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
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
To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of… — James E. Faust
Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for… — Bill Gates
The Savior was selfless. He viewed himself and his own needs as secondary, and he ministered to others tirelessly, lovingly, effectively. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late. — Jim Diamond
In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed,… — Margaret J. Wheatley
There is no more reason to think that they expected the world to remain static than there is to think that any of us holds… — Diane Wood

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