Needs And Wants Quotes
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“When we stake a claim to the needs and wants of our life, we may easily fail to live up to the standards of others. Empathy and connectedness, however, might bridge the gap, by stirring our consciousness of the sensitive queries and by assessing the intricate framework of our surroundings with their countless, prickly nitty-gritties. ("Absence of Desire")”
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“The most important purpose of any product is to satisfy a customer’s need and not the entrepreneur’s need.”
― 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
― 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“Too much is never too much, and just enough is enough.”
― The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
― The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
“I want to give you affirmation. But if I don't give you enough, you should ask for it."
"Isn't asking for affirmation — I don't know — needy?"
He looked perplexed. "Isn't the point of something like this that the other person tries to meet your needs, and you try to meet theirs?"
I was quiet for a few seconds before saying, "Is this what they teach in therapy? Because it's blowing my mind.”
― Romantic Comedy
"Isn't asking for affirmation — I don't know — needy?"
He looked perplexed. "Isn't the point of something like this that the other person tries to meet your needs, and you try to meet theirs?"
I was quiet for a few seconds before saying, "Is this what they teach in therapy? Because it's blowing my mind.”
― Romantic Comedy
“There’s a very fine line between trying to please others and making sure that your own needs are being met.”
― Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
― Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“the optimal goal is the replacement of false needs by true ones, the abandonment of repressive satisfaction.”
― One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
― One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
“I saw him as a circuit breaker; something that could put my big, unmeetable desires on pause. I had wanted to funnel all that wanting into him, into something that seemed manageable, immediate, tangible. I had hoped that falling in love would make all the disquiet go away.
And maybe it would have, for a while. But probably not forever.”
― Green Dot
And maybe it would have, for a while. But probably not forever.”
― Green Dot
“Rutted faced men such as me do not determine the suitability of life’s terrain. Our terracotta passageway simply unfolds before us awaiting the minor edits we compose in the mistaken notion that as mere actors we also serve as the almighty playwright. In actuality, faltering men stumbling along in life such as me serve at the mercy of our base desires. Caught in cacoethes – uncontrollable desire – we manically act to satisfy our wild and occasionally harmful urges. Working slavishly to mollify our wants reduces us to serving as the unwitting chroniclers of the jeremiad canvas painted with the frayed lisle of our shillyshallying élan vital.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
“People will be with you until their need is fulfilled and then they'll find another person to fulfill their other desires. Don't trust or put too much hope on anyone, because it hurts.”
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“Do not try to fullfil your desires first, try to fullfil your needs, one day your desires will be fulfilled also. But if you fullfil your desires than you'll not able to fulfill your needs....!!”
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“Before we do anything, here's the first lesson in dessert making: don't stint on any of the good stuff. Fill it up with butter, and cream, and sugar, and fruit. All the things we want loads of but really shouldn't have. It should feel decadent."
That's her grandfather talking, of course: "Pudding is an indulgence; it should feel like it," he used to say. She could recall one day, in the kitchen of their house in London, when she was maybe nine or ten, helping her mother frost a birthday cake for one of her sisters (Meg, surely; Julia had given up cake, by that point). Elliott sat on a stool at the kitchen island, watching them, guiding Susan's technique: "Take off just enough of the frosting to give a smooth appearance, but don't scrape it all off. The whole point of cake is the frosting, isn't it? You don't want a bare cake."
"Julia would," Susan commented with a wry smile.
"Julia doesn't appreciate things like this" was Elliott's response.
"Now, now," Susan's mother gently remonstrated with a warning look at her father-in-law.
"Well, I worry about Julia," he said. "If you can't indulge in a little cake now and again, what sort of joy do you have in your life? Can you indulge in anything? And yes, cake is an indulgence. You don't need it, but you want it. It should feel celebratory and just a little delightfully naughty when you have it. It's the same with any dessert.”
― All Stirred Up
That's her grandfather talking, of course: "Pudding is an indulgence; it should feel like it," he used to say. She could recall one day, in the kitchen of their house in London, when she was maybe nine or ten, helping her mother frost a birthday cake for one of her sisters (Meg, surely; Julia had given up cake, by that point). Elliott sat on a stool at the kitchen island, watching them, guiding Susan's technique: "Take off just enough of the frosting to give a smooth appearance, but don't scrape it all off. The whole point of cake is the frosting, isn't it? You don't want a bare cake."
"Julia would," Susan commented with a wry smile.
"Julia doesn't appreciate things like this" was Elliott's response.
"Now, now," Susan's mother gently remonstrated with a warning look at her father-in-law.
"Well, I worry about Julia," he said. "If you can't indulge in a little cake now and again, what sort of joy do you have in your life? Can you indulge in anything? And yes, cake is an indulgence. You don't need it, but you want it. It should feel celebratory and just a little delightfully naughty when you have it. It's the same with any dessert.”
― All Stirred Up
“There are simply two ways to be rich. One is to have all you need; the other is to be satisfied with what you have.”
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“So many of us are set upon Jesus Christ satisfying our needs, not realizing we were created to satisfy Him.”
― Making Love To God
― Making Love To God
“The horizon of needs and wants never actually gets closer; it's an illusion, a trick. We can always want more. We can always perceive some need.”
― I Miss You When I Blink: Essays
― I Miss You When I Blink: Essays
“Need is often dressed as love, but it is always self-concerned. Love can be dressed any old way it wants, but it will always be concerned with the good of the other.”
― Nanima: Spiritual Fiction
― Nanima: Spiritual Fiction
“Something happened, nothing happened, something happened, something could not happen, something is going to happen, nothing is going to happen, but what is happening is healing you, even if someday you are not able to heal. Keep calm, go in front of the mirror and see yourself smiling, even if you shed tears, it will be fine, you will be healed in a moment by both these behaviors, this is what I want and those who are with me also want this, be careless. Celebrate it and put your life in that moment, then whenever you look back, that celebration, that laughter, that scene will refresh your today!! Take care of yourself and those who are with you, even if there is distance or closeness, just take care, even if they don't speak, even if they don't express, but your one thought will be enough, everything will be fine, so that's all I had to say. Be happy ♡”
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“I don't need a God who just exists; I need a God who cares, who intervenes, who shows up, who makes right, who enacts justice, who extends mercy.
I need a God who delivers.
I need a God who is not just there but a God who is here.
I need a God who doesn't just give me what I want when I want it but who shows up in the middle spaces - who reminds me of his nearness, goodness, faithfulness, and presence. And if I don't sense those aspects of God, today I need to keep asking for it and not just some temporary relief of my most pressing desires.”
― Curious Faith
I need a God who delivers.
I need a God who is not just there but a God who is here.
I need a God who doesn't just give me what I want when I want it but who shows up in the middle spaces - who reminds me of his nearness, goodness, faithfulness, and presence. And if I don't sense those aspects of God, today I need to keep asking for it and not just some temporary relief of my most pressing desires.”
― Curious Faith
“The truth is that we were all born selfish. All babies are born limited to thinking only about their needs and what they want. It then becomes the growing environment that determines whether they learn to be selfless or that they graduate into being narcissists.”
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“Placing your needs as the priority, allows you to pour into others in much more fulfilling ways.”
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“The human heart has no desires that God cannot satisfy.”
― They Found the Secret: Twenty Transformed Lives That Reveal a Touch of Eternity
― They Found the Secret: Twenty Transformed Lives That Reveal a Touch of Eternity
“If you try too hard to please others, you may fail to satisfy your own needs.”
― Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide
― Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide
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