Quotes About Neediness

#1. If our sense of who we are is defined by feelings of neediness and insecurity, we forget that we are also curious, humorous and caring. We forget about the breath that is nourishing us, the love that unites us, the enormous beauty and fragility that is our shared experience in being alive.

Tara Brach

#2. Emotion doesn't travel in a straight line. Like water, our feelings trickle down through cracks and crevices, seeking out the little pockets of neediness and neglect, the hairline fractures in our character usually hidden from public view.

Sue Grafton

#3. His version of 'real' love isn't sufficient for me, I don't think anyone should settle for so little. It wasn't love - not in the true sense. On my part, it was neediness, insecurity, dependence, habit - desperate to feel loved by a man who was often ambivalent towards me.

Freya North

#4. There is no neediness in desire ... there is no caretaking in desire. Caretaking is mightily loving, [but] it's a powerful anti-aphrodisiac.

Esther Perel

#5. Money and machines anesthetize neediness. They put us in charge, in control. As long as the money holds out and the machines are in good repair, we don't need to pray.

Eugene H. Peterson

#6. My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out.

Jonathan Evison

#7. Reducing our desires and eliminating false neediness is the answer to resolving the nagging inner discomfort that we feel.

Angelina Love

#8. Your neediness qualifies you to help others. Your neediness, offered well to someone else, can even be one of the great gifts you give to your church. You will inspire others to ask for help.

Edward T. Welch

#9. Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out. And the way out is through the mind, by choosing our thoughts.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#10. This was the part she hated, the part of a relationship that always nudged her to bail, the part where someone else's misery or expectations or neediness crept into her carefully prescribed world. It was such a burden, other people's lives.

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

#11. Holidays bring out neediness like nothing else.

Lauren Myracle

#12. Boy craziness is really just girl neediness.

Paula Hendricks

#13. According to Jesus, acknowledging our neediness opens the door to genuine and lasting happiness. Religions usually talk about what a person has to "do", but Jesus talks about what we "can't do". He says that our weakness, not our power or what we bring to God, enables us to know God.

Paul E. Miller

#14. Your insecurity and neediness is what makes you a big neurotic ball of comedy genius.

Marc Maron

#15. You must learn to give, from sufficiency, not only take, from neediness.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#16. I always say neediness is the cause of suffering. I'm not the only one who says it. It's something I adopted and I believe.

Russell Simmons

#17. The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love.

Marianne Williamson

#18. I have concluded that the more we seek the Lord, with a passion for His worthiness, the more we are gripped with our neediness. Adoration cultivates desperation.

Daniel Henderson

#19. Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.

Diogenes

#20. I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people's throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

Joyce Meyer

#21. We spend too much time concealing our neediness. We need to stop hiding. Being needy is our basic condition. There is no shame in it - it's just the way it is. Understanding this, accepting it, and practicing it will make you a better helper.

Edward T. Welch

#22. God not only loves me as I am, but also knows me as I am. Because of this I don't need to apply spiritual cosmetics to make myself presentable to Him. I can accept ownership of my poverty and powerlessness and neediness.

Brennan Manning

#23. Our soul's problem, however, is not its neediness; it's our fallenness. Our need was meant to point us to God. Instead, we fasten our minds and bodies and wills on other sources of ultimate devotion, which the Bible calls idolatry.

John Ortberg

#24. Here's what I think: the five most
unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and
jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal.

Douglas Coupland

#25. I'm just reveling in the glory of not having to hear the neediness and impotence of my own voice.

John Green

#26. Lily's spirit neediness expressed itself raw as a kerosene blaze in the material world.

Charles Frazier

#27. Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of positive attributes, a meeting of mind, body and soul that is all the more powerful as it is not weighed down with neediness and unreasonable expectation.

Mariella Frostrup

#28. Our soul begins to grow in God when we acknowledge our basic neediness.

John Ortberg

#29. Acting from the appropriateness of the heart, we are freed from the neediness of the mind.

Stephen Levine

#30. They say love is blind, but it's not. Infatuation is blind. Emotional neediness is blind. Love sees the fault - it just sees beyond it as well.

Richard Paul Evans

#31. My instinct was to keep him at a distance, at that distance, certainly, that we introduce between ourselves and those we suspect of neediness.

Joseph O'Neill

#32. I don't particularly like babies. They are loud and smelly and, above all other things, demanding. No matter how much free day care you throw at women, babies are still time-sucking monsters with their constant neediness.

Amanda Marcotte

#33. Confronting fear, weaknesses, and neediness by choosing our own thoughts is the way out.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#34. Want is small and will make you small. Want is needy and will make you needy.

Bryant McGill

#35. You would not believe what skill, power and ability your total intelligence possesses until you are in desperate need.

Bryant McGill

#36. It wasn't as if she'd thought it through or anything, how what a person wanted wasn't always what they needed, and what a person needed might be the last thing they could ever want.

Shannon Celebi

#37. Because introverts are typically good listeners and, at least, have the appearance of calmness, we are attractive to emotionally needy people. Introverts, gratified that other people are initiating with them, can easily get caught in these exhausting and unsatisfying relationships.

Adam S. McHugh

#38. We are unhappy because we think that love is something we require from someone else.

Arthur Japin

#39. When all seems hopeless, cross your fingers and stick with the secular prayer.

Brian Spellman

#40. Any man's measure is determined by what he will do when he is faced with his own deep need. Not how high he may reach but how low he may kneel.

Dr. J. Otis Yoder