Wants And Needs Quotes

• If we aren't careful, our children will come down with 'affluenza,' a disease that causes them to confuse wants and needs. We need to teach our children what my grandmother taught me: Think twice about spending money you don't have on things you don't need to impress people you don't like anyway.

  Michelle Singletary

  Money, Children, Grandmother

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• You don't get what you want. You get what you are.

  Wayne Dyer

  Want, Peaceful Warrior, Way Of The Warrior

  "You Are God". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, www.drwaynedyer.com. October, 2014.

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• I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It's not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace.

  Frank Sinatra

  Believe, Sunday, Church

  Source: www.linkedin.com

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• When we don't ask for what we want and need, we discount ourselves.

  Melody Beattie

  Needs, Want, Discounts

  Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, Hazelden Publishing

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• We are all capable of achieving whatever we want and need.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Needs

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• It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.

  Amy Poehler

  Needs, Want, Asks

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• You do not get what you want. You get what you negotiate.

  Harvey Mackay

  Want, Peaceful Warrior, Way Of The Warrior

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• 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

  Thinking, Creative, Cooking

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• Wants and needs are closely connected. And all our needs, even the ones we're not completely aware of yet, will be met. Be grateful that God knows more about what we need than we do. Sometimes when we pray, we get what we want. Sometimes we get what we need. Accept both answers-the yes's and the something else's-with heartfelt gratitude. Then look around and see what your lesson and gift is.

  Melody Beattie

  Gratitude, Prayer, Grateful

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• Living with integrity means...not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships; asking for what you want and need from others; speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension; behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values; making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Inspirational, Relationship, Integrity

  FaceBook post by Dr. Barbara De Angelis from Dec 12, 2016

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• When you are trying to move mountains you want-and need-people on your side who want to move them with you.

  Jamie Oliver

  Moving, Your Side, People

  "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Q&A". Oprah Interview, www.oprah.com. April 21, 2010.

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• No one should feel afraid of the unknown. Because everyone is capable of achieving everything he wants and needs.

  Paulo Coelho

  Needs, Want, Achieve

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• This world of ours has everything except one thing: peace. Everybody wants and needs peace, whether he be a child or an octogenarian.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Peace, Children, Needs

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.509, Aum Publications

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• I can't think of anything I want and need that I don't already have but at the same time, I'm not sated.

  Ashley Judd

  Thinking, Needs, Want

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• In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

  Christopher Lasch

  Drug, Needs, Want

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• The Buddha never intended to make desire itself the problem. When he said craving causes suffering, he was referring not to our natural inclination as living beings to have wants and needs, but to our habit of clinging to experience that must, by nature, pass away.

  Tara Brach

  Suffering, Passing Away, Desire

  "Radical Acceptance of Desire" by Tara Brach, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2013.

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• Our existence in this place, this microscopic corner of the cosmos, is fleeting. With utter disregard for our wants and needs, nature plays out its grand acts on scales of space and time that are truly hard to grasp. Perhaps all we can look to for real solace is our endless capacity to ask questions and seek answers about the place we find ourselves in.

  Caleb Scharf

  Real, Play, Space

  Caleb Scharf (2012). “Gravity's Engines: How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars, and Life in the Cosmos”, p.187, Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• As more people use social media to tell the story of the future, the wants and needs of more people will be reflected.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Inspiration, Media, People

  Twitter post from Dec 15, 2015

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• The only thing we can depend on in life is that everything changes. The seasons, our partners, what we want and need. We hold hands with out high school friends and swear to never lose touch, and then we do.Change is the only constant. Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being.

  Amy Poehler

  School, Hands, Want

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• The problems to be faced are vast and complex, but come down to this: 6.6 billion people are breeding exponentially. The process of fulfilling their wants and needs is stripping earth of its biotic capacity to produce life; a climactic burst of consumption by a single species is overwhelming the skies, earth, waters, and fauna.

  Paul Hawken

  Sky, People, Water

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• I want and need the artist to take me to new places, and the new place that Van Gogh took me not the sky as it is but the sky as he felt it. And the more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Artist, Sky, Want

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• The costume of women should be suited to her wants and needs.

  Amelia Bloomer

  Needs, Want, Costumes

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• Declare today "sacred timeoff limits to everyone, unless invited by you. Take care of your personal wants and needs. Say no, graciously but firmly, to others' demands."

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Needs, Demand

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• Followers have a very clear picture of what they want and need from the most influential leaders in their lives: trust, compassion, stability, and hope.

  Tom Rath

  Compassion, Leader, Needs

  Tom Rath, Barry Conchie (2008). “Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• If you're laying in bed next to someone that really doesn't make you feel like the goddess that you are, you need to rediscover what it is that you truly want and need.

  Lady Gaga

  Bed, Needs, Want

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