To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake
is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
- Pema Chodron
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church
to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
- Pope Francis
We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation,
a ship going to discover the New World.
And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.
- John Lennon
Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there.
Assemble yourself with wild things,
with songs of the sparrow and sea-foam.
Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes
and it will shine - Calling me.
For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair.
A man who will Kiss the Flame.
- Jewel
I have faith. I just need proof to back it up.
- the movie Simon Birch
I personally think we developed language
because of our deep need to complain.
- Lily Tomlin
Don't expect me to get excited over
another damn thing we need to find.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
I feel the need to express something,
but I don't know what it is I want to express.
- the movie Interiors
Whenever I feel the need to exercise,
I lie down until it goes away.
- Robert Maynard Hutchins
My life is difficult. I need more money.
- the movie The Expendables (2010)
Politicians and diapers need to be changed regularly,
usually for the same reason.
- Anonymous
Advice is seldom welcome,
and those who need it the most, like it the least.
- Lord Chesterfield
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand,
you'll find one at the end of your arm.
- Audrey Hepburn
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money
they don't have for something they don't need.
- Will Rogers
Oh, you weak, beautiful people
who give up with such grace.
What you need is someone to take hold of you -
gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
- Tennessee Williams
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind
and proving that there is no need to do so,
almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
A bank is a place that will lend you money
if you can prove that you don't need it.
- Bob Hope
All you need is love.
But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
- Charles M. Schulz
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence;
then success is sure.
- Mark Twain
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite
smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol
before, after and if need be during all meals
and in the intervals between them.
- Winston Churchill
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Ought-To Need-To Tango:
I am racked with the guilt and the pain of I should,
and I ought, and I can't, but I must.
I can't rest; I can't sleep; I'm just not understood,
and I hate that the world is unjust.
I have work; I have woes; I have troubles for life;
but I don't have a ME that I trust.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We humans feel an instinctive need to know
what is coming next - what we can count upon.
We fear change - even the most positive change.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
- Emily Dickinson
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
Today is a day to cover your best weapons in velvet.
Go gently into the world.
Hold your anger.
Keep your competitive spirit in check.
Some day you will need your fierce weapons,
but not today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being human, we are imperfect. That's why we need each other.
To catch each other when we falter.
To encourage each other when we lose heart.
Some may lead; others may follow; but none of us can go it alone.
- Hilary Clinton
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger,
regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue.
Let go of the need for approval.
- Lama Surya Das
The question is not whether we will be extremists,
but what kind of extremists we will be...
The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love men and women not for their strength
but their softness,
not for their fullness but their hunger,
not for their plenty but their need.
- Anais Nin
(paraphrase)
I have no need to conform to the stereotypes
others have defined for me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All you need is love.
- John Lennon
You don't need anybody to tell you
who you are or what you are.
You are what you are!
- John Lennon
Look at this butterfly, so beautiful, so delicate.
I can enjoy this butterfly from a distance,
but if I touched her, she would die.
While not quite as delicate as butterflies,
people also need private space and private time
away from the demands of the world -
even away from the attentions of those
with whom they are most bonded.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You don't need a reason to be happy,
just a choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your children need your presence
more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson
Everything I need will be manifested.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Instead of needing lots of children,
we need high-quality children.
- Margaret Mead
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank
You need to make a commitment,
and once you make it,
then life will give you some answers.
- Les Brown
It is not more vacation we need -
it is more vocation.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The only way to store information is by agreement.
The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind.
Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive.
Humans punish themselves endlessly
for not being what they believe they should be.
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others,
but we cannot accept and love ourselves.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The secret of success is to find a need and fill it,
to find a hurt and heal it,
to find somebody with a problem
and offer to help solve it.
- Robert H. Schuller
I believe life's rich experiences need to be shared with others -
for me this is the way one builds knowledge.
- Pravs J
If you have to have it, it's ego.
If you have to not have it, it's ego.
Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need
and release what you don't.
- Alan Cohen
Make your important choices in life
based on your values and your long-term objectives
rather than on a need for approval.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Know that you do not need anyone's permission
to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
When you find your path, you must not be afraid.
You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are
the tools God uses to show us the way.
- Paulo Coelho
We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- John Wooden
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think,
and that's the time when they most need to think.
- William J. Clinton
Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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