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"You are perfect exactly as you are. With all your flaws and problems, there's no need to change anything. All you need to change is the thought that you aren't good enough."
"No need to fix what God already put his paint brush on"
"The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed"
"Knowledge is provided but only to those who need to know"
"We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day."
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"Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through."
"You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone."
"It's a hurtful place, the world, in and of itself. We don't need to add to it. And we're in a place now where we all need one another, and it's going to get rougher."
"When I trust deeply that today God is truly with me and holds me safe in a divine embrace, guiding every one of my steps I can let go of my anxious need to know how tomorrow will look, or what will happen next month or next year. I can be fully where I am and pay attention to the many signs of God's love within me and around me."
"When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry."
"If it can be solved, there's no need to worry, and if it can't be solved, worry is of no use."
"Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack."
"I don't need it to be easy. I just want it to be worth it."
"He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap."
"Ideas do not need weapons."
"We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves."
"No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free."
"I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread."
"Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself."
"Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived."
"You want to do something for the Lord...do it. Whatever you feel needs to be done, even though youre shaking in your boots, youre scared to death -- take the first step forward. The grace comes with that one step and you get the grace as you step. Being afraid is not a problem; its doing nothing when you feel afraid."
"If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times."
"Feel the needs of others more than your own."
"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done."
"You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it."
