Quotes About Desires And Needs

#1. The sight of a child ... will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons - longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona.

Carl Jung

#2. All people have similar desires and needs. They only pursue them in different ways.

Debasish Mridha

#3. Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions.

Harry Browne

#4. Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.

Maxwell Maltz

#5. Narcissism makes people incapable of looking beyond themselves, beyond their own desires and needs.

Pope Francis

#6. All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.

Hildegard Of Bingen

#7. Just because you married doesn't mean you're not an individual person with your own wants and desires and needs.

Joe Swanberg

#8. We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.

Bill Watterson

#9. I don't need marriage. I don't need anyone to take care of all my needs and desires. I can take care of them myself now.

Mindy Kaling

#10. The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

Bertrand Russell

#11. Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion.

Albert J. Nock

#12. Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited needs. fears and desires. We can assume that he loves what we love and hates what we hate, endorsing our prejudices instead of compelling us to transcend them.

Karen Armstrong

#13. Our greatest opportunities are to let go and surrender to that which is greater than our egoistic needs and desires.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#14. Honesty is the key to Happiness.
Be always truthful to yourself, to
your feelings, emotions, needs and
desires & to others, no matter what!

Lily Amis

#15. First, the behavior should not follow directly from present needs and desires. Second, it should prepare the individual for a future situation in a different context than the current one. The girl needed a spoon not in bed, but at the chocolate pudding party she expected in her dream.11

Frans De Waal

#16. We must never distinguish apologetics and evangelism too neatly. But in broad terms, evangelism is the sharing of the good news, and it addresses the needs and desires of those who know they are in a bad situation.

Os Guinness

#17. He didn't say anything and I thought I'd shocked him, because I tend to do that. Not just with Michael but with pretty much anyone who can't deal with being honest and admitting that you have wants and needs and desires and all those other fun things.

Sarra Manning

#18. The key to all motivation is desire, and the master key to creating desire is responsiveness to the needs, desires, and interests of the people you would lead.

John R Noe

#19. Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

#20. And that is close to saying that a woman can have no needs, desires, purpose, or calling so compelling and so important that she should not set it aside in an instant, because of a stray sperm.

Katha Pollitt

#21. We can easily be led into captivity by seeking other answers to needs and desires that only God can meet.

Beth Moore

#22. The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and needs are. If people's stated desires were just some kind of erasable inscription or reprogrammable brainwashing, any atrocity could be justified.

Steven Pinker

#23. There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.

Albert J. Nock

#24. Andy was speechless. He'd forgotten that there was actually another person in the room- someone with her own needs and desires and shit to freak out about. But it was funny, or better than funny, that sometimes two people could be feeling the exact same thing at the exact same time.

Tommy Wallach

#25. At a lot of companies founded on principles, the notion of making money is almost antithetical to the ethos of the place. From the very beginning, our business has existed to meet the needs and desires of multiple constituencies: customers, team members, vendors, shareholders, the community.

John Mackey

#26. I don't have much of a bucket list. I don't have a lot of needs and desires.

Fred DeLuca

#27. She'd say the girl needed warmth and affection and someone to look after her, but Jack had to wonder if that didn't have more to do with a woman's own desires than the needs of a child.

Eowyn Ivey

#28. Love has an enormous spectrum of expression and impact. At the far end, it begins to unravel and move away from subjective experience and personal preference. It becomes pure intent, something that no longer tickles our desires, but fulfills the deeper needs of each circumstance we're in.

Darrell Calkins

#29. Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need in our lives.

Lorii Myers

#30. We set forth our petitions before God, not in order to make known to Him our needs and desires, but rather so that we ourselves may realize that in these things it is necessary to turn to God for help.

Thomas Aquinas

#31. Postmodernism: The cultural condition marked by the absolute gratification of human desires and the absolute neglect of human needs.

Peter K. Fallon

#32. Spies have the same kinds of needs and desires that everybody does, which is funny. The best kind of comedy derives from that kind of truth.

Matt Nix

#33. Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.

Susan Griffin

#34. The only way for government to express the needs and desires of Americans is if Americans speak up and get involved.

Michael J. Fox

#35. As utterly irrational as it might seem, the greed within me has the most limited vision I can possibly imagine as it has eyes only for the few things it doesn't have, and it is completely blind to all the many remarkable things that it does.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#36. You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.

Francesca Annis

#37. Whatever you now do, whatever you now believe, whatever your current circumstances may be, you are perfectly equipped and fully capable of fulfilling your needs and desires.

Chris Prentiss

#38. The place where what someone needs and what she desires cross each other to become one.

Alice Hoffman

#39. Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.

Nellie McKay

#40. Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

David Heinemeier Hansson

#41. When you have what you want (inner peace), you are less distracted by your wants, needs, desires, and concerns. It's thus easier to concentrate, focus, achieve your goals, and to give back to others.

Richard Carlson

#42. I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious.

Christopher Hitchens

#43. My fear is a fear of being obsolete. This is a world that changes very fast, and one of the main human desires is to belong to, to be part of something. It's probably one of our greatest needs next to oxygen.

Paul Polman

#44. Social stability comes at the price of wearing a mask, of learning to distance ourselves from our unique nature, from our personal desires, needs, and feelings; instead, we embrace a socially acceptable self.

Frederic Laloux

#45. Your customers don't care about you. They don't care about your product or service. They care about themselves, their dreams, their goals. Now, they will care much more if you help them reach their goals, and to do that, you must understand their goals, as well as their needs and deepest desires.

Steve Jobs

#46. But love? Who can say what is just a mire of dark needs and desires, and what is true love? Does such a thing exist? Can't it be that if we say, 'I love you' to another person and know that we mean it, then that is love, regardless of the motive?

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#47. Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.

Marya Mannes

#48. Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.

Taylor Hackford

#49. When the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realizatio n turns into self-absorption , other people can lose their intrinsic value in our eyes and become mere means to the fulfillment of our needs and desires.

P. M. Forni

#50. Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people 'feel' heard. They 'feel' that someone really understands their wants, needs and desires. And for good reason; a good listener does care to understand.

Simon Sinek

#51. I hated him, loved him, wanted him, and yet I wished him away. So many conflicting emotions of wants and needs. So much fear. Not because of him, but because of myself - of how deep my feelings and desires were running, and how much I would fall if I happened to lose my grip.

J.C. Reed

#52. A muse can be a mirror: a reflection of the artist's desires, anxieties, dreams and needs.

Vince Aletti

#53. It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry.

Andrew Schneider

#54. Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

Louis D. Brandeis

#55. The corporation is not an independent "person" with its own rights, needs, and desires that regulators must respect. It is a state created tool for advancing social and economic policy.

Joel Bakan

#56. 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 absolute. It is the vital ocean in which we all share, according to our strength, our needs or our desires.

Remy De Gourmont

#57. Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.

Joni Mitchell

#58. Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#59. Differing perspectives, needs, and desires sometimes have a way of spawning completely different interpretations of the same events.

Michael Makai

#60. Life is a piece of art drawn by love on the canvas of hope with the colors of desires, wants, and needs.

Debasish Mridha

#61. A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

Roger Ebert

#62. Men and women's needs and desires overlap but go in different directions as well.

Nicolas Roeg

#63. God's wealth circulates in my life, it flows to me in avalanches of abundance. All my needs, desires and goals are met instantaneously, for I am one with God and he is everything!

Tony Robbins

#64. decolonization requires acknowledging. that your needs and desires should never come at the expense of another's life energy. it is being honest that you have been spoiled by a machine that is not feeding you freedom but feeding you the milk of pain.

Nayyirah Waheed

#65. It's really seeing student involvement ... as a variety of opportunities that are appropriate for each given student and responsive to their individual needs and their desires for their educational experience.

Adam Fletcher

#66. Her safety, needs, wants and desires would always be the most important things to him. She was the center of his universe and he would protect her at all cost.

Julia Mills

#67. That I am totally devoid of sympathy for, or interest in, the world of groups is directly attributable to the fact that my two greatest needs and desires - smoking cigarettes and plotting revenge - are basically solitary pursuits.

Fran Lebowitz

#68. My life may be much happier to-morrowHunger and love that press against the body,The two eternal needs we recognise,Desires that so relentlessly pursue one,May get me down or raise me to the skiesAnd make me a Don Bradman or Don Juan.

Gavin Ewart

#69. Animals have been reduced to objects for production, and their lives are designed around our needs and desires.

Liz Marshall

#70. We have no need to learn to think much of ourselves, to care for ourselves, to consider our own needs, wants, and desires. We already do that far too much. The problem is getting us to think of others, to have a lowliness of mind that springs from humility and love.

Nancy Wilson

#71. If you don't know what you want, you'll never find it.
If you don't know what you deserve, you'll always settle for less.
You will wander aimlessly, uncomfortably numb in your comfort zone, wondering how life has ended up here.
Life starts now, live, love, laugh and let your light shine!

Rob Liano

#72. Netanyahu is partnering up with Boehner to kick Obama in the teeth and sabotage one of the president's top diplomatic priorities. He is essentially telling American Jews to get lost: 'I have no regard for the president you support and no regard for your own political needs and desires.'

David Corn

#73. I was a blank canvas, no thoughts, no emotions, no needs or desires, just a square of white floating through a loud, chaotic world, and life would paint me with color and substance, smear and spread and colorize me.

Jasinda Wilder

#74. I'm looking for me in you, that my hollowness makes it impossible to identify my needs and my desires,

Irvin D. Yalom

#75. Egoic consciousness is the one we all normally operate with, until we are told there is something else! Every culture teaches egoic consciousness in different ways. At that level it is all about me, my preferences, my choices, my needs, my desires and me and my group as the central reference point.

Richard Rohr

#76. Yet because her needs and yearnings are real and pressing, she must find some way to express them: she puts into body what she cannot yet put into words. Her eating disorder serves as her voice, her attempt to express and meet her needs and desires without directly asking for anything.

Sheila M. Reindl

#77. It doesn't take objectivity to know what you want, and you're not objective enough to know what you need.

Amy Neftzger

#78. Insofar as there shall always be a desire, there shall always be a want and there shall always be a need

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#79. avoid the common business pitfall of making business decisions based on the company's skill set rather than on the customers' needs and desires.

Jeofrey Bean

#80. Within the nature of every person is a desire to feel appreciated, to feel needed, and to be loved.

Ellen J. Barrier

#81. When the living gets unburdened with needs and desires, the life becomes simple and easy to carry.

Shashi

#82. Art will liberate itself from the needs and desires of men. No longer will we paint a forest ora horseas we like oras theyappear to us, but as they really are.

Franz Marc

#83. When we forget that, we unwittingly reduce God's ways to our ways and God's thoughts to our thoughts. Our hearts become factories of idols in which we fashion and refashion God to fit our needs and desires.

Miroslav Volf

#84. Societies and people that come close to being happy are those that do well in narrowing the disparity between their desires and their needs, especially the material things of life.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#85. Brandon was a natural at whatever he put his mind to. It was one of the things that made him so attractive. That and his complete lack of pretense. He was brilliant, but didn't brag, popular, but not cliquish, comfortable in his skin, and utterly forthright about his needs and desires.

Diana Peterfreund

#86. There is a difference between what you want, and what you need.

Abhijit Naskar

#87. When we confuse the needs with the desires; all the struggles we take lead to failure and disappointment.

M.F. Moonzajer

#88. The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic ... Only that which has been organized into our disposition so as to enable us to adapt the environment to our needs and adapt our aims and desires to the situation in which we live is really knowledge.

John Dewey

#89. If you don't need what you really want, you can barely want what you really need.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

#90. a successful business is centered around a market and that market's needs. It's not centered around your wishes and desires. Ideally, what you want will overlap with what they need, but what you want should not be the source.

Ilise Benun

#91. We are all lies waiting for the day when we will break free from our cocoon and become the beautiful truth we waited for.

Shannon L. Alder

#92. If Marxist theory dictates that the personal is always political, the rebuttal of both 'The Americans' and 'House of Cards' is that the political is always personal: the sum total of our collective needs and desires, vows and betrayals.

Steve Erickson

#93. We were meant to do more than make sure that all of our needs are fulfilled and all our desires are satisfied. We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.

Paul David Tripp

#94. Selfish needs, wants, and desires needed to be obliterated. Greed, overindulgence, and gluttony had to be expunged from human behavior. The solution was in self-control, in minimalism, in sparse living conditions; one simple and a brand-new dictionary filled with words everyone would understand.

Tahereh Mafi

#95. Other people can also help you take care of your needs and desires. Whatever

Nicholas Boothman

#96. God desires a group of people who no longer think and live as mere individuals, only concerned with getting their particular needs met; but are more interested in serving God and meeting the needs of each other.

Chip Brogden

#97. That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this
that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.

Seneca The Younger

#98. Our mind has evolved in such a way that new wants keep appearing in it relentlessly. But do not confuse them with needs. Needs are necessity, but wants are luxury.

Abhijit Naskar

#99. You want to have a loving, safe relationship with your child, but you can't because you have to do these things to protect them or protect them from themselves - or try to make sure they don't become a vampire! Your desires and your needs are in opposition, and that's always fun to play.

Jack Coleman