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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
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bounty
conservation
earth
environment
greed
indulgence
inspirational
man
need
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Mahatma Gandhi |
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My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you.
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dream
longing
love
need
romance
yearning
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Stephanie Laurens |
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But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.
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need
world
you
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
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Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.
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balance
finding-yourself
inspirational
need
satisfaction
truth
want
who-we-are
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Brandon Sanderson |
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To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again.
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craving
foreshadowing
lack
longing
loss
need
shadow
wholeness
wish
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Marilynne Robinson |
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"You need something," he said, and when I stared at him, he added, "Your face." "My face?" "It's in need of my kisses."
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need
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Jennifer L. Armentrout |
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In a strong relationship, you should love your companion more than you need them.
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inspirational
love
need
relationship
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Steve Maraboli |
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"Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
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immaturity
love
maturity
need
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Erich Fromm |
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
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evil
greed
labor
need
vice
want
weariness
work
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Voltaire |
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Don't you see what's happened? You wanted to be in love again. To feel that feeling where a man you hardly know gazes into your eyes and seems to be the only human being who ever understood the real you.
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falling-in-love
need
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Nancy Horan |
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"This man has conquered the world! What have you done?" The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world."
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need
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Steven Pressfield |
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People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.
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criticism
love
need
romance
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Gary Chapman |
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Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.
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need
selflessness
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Arthur Miller |
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I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him. This impulse did not end with his death. What ended was the possibility of response.
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need
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Joan Didion |
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Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings...but there's something dead about it, something deserted.
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arms
body
dead
desire
fantasy
lack
love
need
sex
solitude
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Margaret Atwood |
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Not even need and love can defeat fate...
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love
need
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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"You need some coffee, don't you?" "Yes, I've only had a gallon."
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gallon
need
only
some
yes
you
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John Grisham |
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The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.
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misery
necessity
need
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William Shakespeare |
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But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?
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need
want
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Mary Balogh |
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Max. God, but she was stubborn. And tough. And closed in. Closed off. Except when she was holding Angel, or ruffling the Gasman's hair, or pushing something closer to Iggy's hand so he could find it easily without knowing anyone had helped him. Or when she was trying to untangle Nudge's mane of hair. Or-sometimes-when she was looking at Fang. He shifted on the hard ground, a half-dozen flashes of memory cycling through his brain. Max looking at him and laughing. Max leaping off a cliff, snapping out her wings, flying off, so incredibly powerful and graceful that it took his breath away. Max punching someone's lights out, her face like stone. Max kissing that weiner Sam on Anne's front porch. Gritting his teeth, Fang rolled onto his side. Max kissing him on the beach, after Ari had kicked Fang's butt. Just now, her mouth soft under his. He wished she were here, if not next to him, then somewhere in the cave, so he could hear her breathing. It was going to be hard to sleep without that tonight.
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fang
friendship-and-love
jealousy
love
max
missing
need
needing
otp
otpotptoptop-i-just-can-t
remembering
wings-and-flying
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James Patterson |
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God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using to alleviate the misery of unevangelized, uneducated, unmedicated, and unfed millions. The evidence that many professing Christians have been deceived by this doctrine is how little they give and how much they own. God has prospered them. And by an almost irresistible law of consumer culture (baptized by a doctrine of health, wealth, and prosperity) they have bought bigger (and more) houses, newer (and more) cars, fancier (and more) clothes, better (and more) meat, and all manner of trinkets and gadgets and containers and devices and equipment to make life more fun. They will object: Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper his people? Indeed! God increases our yield, so that by giving we can prove our yield is not our god. God does not prosper a man's business so that he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that 17,000 unreached people can be reached with the gospel. He prospers the business so that 12 percent of the world's population can move a step back from the precipice of starvation.
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compassion
evangelism
giving
gospel
greed
hunger
need
prosperity
sharing
starvation
stewardship
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John Piper |
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Why now? Why not? Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to share. To belong. Perhaps you will die before the year is out. But remember this: to have may be taken from you, to have had never. Far better to have tasted love before dying, than to die alone.
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love
need
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David Gemmell |
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need
novel
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Dan Brown |
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As I sat down, though, I realized that you can get used to certain luxuries that you start to think they're necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you don't need them after all. There was a big difference between needing things and wanting things--though a lot of people had trouble telling the two apart--and at the ranch, I could see, we have pretty much everything we'd need but precious little else.
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need
want
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Jeannette Walls |
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As if I feared that the scope of what I could feel and imagine was being quietly limited by the world within a world, the internet. The things outside of the web were becoming further from me, and everything inside it seemed piercingly relevant. The blogs of strangers had to be read daily, and people nearby who had no web presence were becoming almost cartoonlike, as if they were missing a dimension. It was just happening, like time, like geography. The web seemed so inherently endless that it didn't occur to me what wasn't there. My appetite for pictures and videos and news and music was so gigantic now that if something was shrinking, something immesurable, how would I notice? ...Most of life is offline, and I think it always will be; eating and aching and sleeping and loving happen in the body. But it's not impossible to imagine loosing my appetite for those things; they aren't always easy, and they take so much time.
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internet
life
need
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Miranda July |
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"And I really wanted to see you, too," she said. "When I couldn't see you any more, I realized that. It was as clear as if the planets all of a sudden lined up in a row for me. I really need you. You're a part of me; I'm a part of you."
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love
murakami
need
sputnik-sweetheart
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Haruki Murakami |
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Hard tasks need hard ways.
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need
tasks
ways
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Frank Herbert |
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A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood the nature of human beings - they needed each other even when they appeared hostile, and it was very sweet to be loved by them.
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life
love
need
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Stefan Zweig |
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Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?
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compassion
current
future
hoarding
justice
labor
love
need
neighbor
present
saving
selfish
sharing
stewardship
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Randy Alcorn |
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Love never comes just a little bit at a time, I thought, as I watched him, absorbed in contemplation of the Virgin. The previous day, the world made sense, even without love's presence. But now we needed each other in order to see the true brilliance of things.
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need
virgin-mary
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Paulo Coelho |
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If all of her was not enough for him, then let him have none of her and seek what he needed elsewhere.
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enough
hunger
infidelity
looking
need
possession
release
roaming
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Robin Hobb |
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"And I need you, my love," he said. "I need you so much that I panic when I think that perhaps I will not be able to persuade you to come back with me to Enfield. I need you so much that I cannot quite contemplate the rest of my life if it must be lived without you. I need you so much that--Well, the words speak for themselves. I need you." "To look after Augusta?" she said. She dared not hear what he was surely saying. She dared not hope. "To look after Enfield? To provide you with an heir?" "Yes," he said, and her heart sank like a stone to be squashed somewhere between her slippers and the parlor carpet."And to be my friend and my confidant and my comfort. And to be my lover."
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need
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Mary Balogh |
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"Marty, my mother used to say "Never get greedy with God." I think what she meant was "Don't dare ask for more if you already have what you need." "
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god
greed
need
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James Patterson |
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Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.
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giving
greed
need
scripture
sharing
stewardship
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Randy Alcorn |
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Christians are God's delivery people, through whom he does his giving to a needy world. We are conduits of God's grace to others. Our eternal investment portfolio should be full of the most strategic kingdom-building projects to which we can disburse God's funds.
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giving
grace
investment-kingdom
need
stewardship
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Randy Alcorn |
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What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight toward a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?...If your deepest self is singing and coaxing you straight toward the bonfire, is it better to turn away? Stop your ears with wax? Ignore all the perverse glory your heart is screaming at you? Set yourself on the course that will lead you dutifully towards the norm, reasonable hours and regular medical check-ups, stable relationships and steady career advancement the New York Times and brunch on Sunday, all with the promise of being somehow a better person? Or...is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?
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destructiveness
health
identity
need
passion
want
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Donna Tartt |
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Underneath all things means that beneath the floorboards, in the depths, in the spaces between the pebbles or sandy floor that contain the pond, that hold our own inside person, is something that can't be destroyed, a foundation that keeps all the water from sinking back into the earth. Something is there, something we need, when we come to rest, when all is lost.
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lost
need
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Anne Lamott |
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You know what? We need a recession in this country, because that would finaly weed out al the subnormal, underdeveloped, stupefied, puerile people in this workforce.
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employement
funny
jobless
joblessness
need
recession
stupid
stupidity
unemployed
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Jen Lancaster |
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Since then he had been walking with a ghost: the miserable ghost of his illusion. Only he had somehow vivified, coloured, substantiated it, by the force of his own great need - as a man might breathe a semblance of life into a dear drowned body that he cannot give up for dead.
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need
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Edith Wharton |
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This is the disarming power of children: their need makes you forget your own.
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need
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Mitch Albom |
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"All you need to know, boy," Finan growled, "is that Lord Uhtred's side is the one that wins."
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finan
know
need
side
uhtred
win
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Bernard Cornwell |
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Love your children while they are young. Because they grow up soon enough, and then... then the have no need of you.
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love
need
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Robert Ferrigno |
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Is not it interesting that you had everything you needed in the first nine months, why is not that true for the next ninety years, because we interfere.
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need
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Wayne W. Dyer |
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I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on all the good things still in my life. On the people who are coming to see me. On the stories I'm going to hear. On you - if it's Tuesday. Because we're Tuesday people.
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cry
dying
good
life
need
people
self
story
tuesday
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Mitch Albom |