"How could anyone survive even a single day, if he didn't feel as if he was, in some little great way, needed?"
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"God took and needed no personal service. He served His creatures without demanding any service for Himself in return."
"John needed to escape his reality. I understood completely but I couldn't go along with him."
"All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't."
"All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone."
"I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do"
"We were taught instead of just reading about life we needed to go out and live it."
"A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital."
"An educated person is not necessarily the one who has the knowledge, but the one who knows where to get it when needed."
"Three things are needed to educate the peasantry: schools, schools, and schools."
"Much is required of those who are happy, especially if they have needed comforting in the past, and have received it."
"And it is so simple... The one thing is - love thy neighbor as thyself - that is the one thing. That is all, nothing else is needed. You will instantly find how to live."
"I felt like it needed some color down there, so I painted the walls with the motherfucker."
"If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed."
"Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere."
"What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude."
"Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed."
"I needed to touch her, like I needed to breathe."
"We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist"
"No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state."