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"When your inner mantra becomes 'How may I serve?' rather than 'What am I going to get?' and 'Who do I need to defeat?,' you start to see the unfolding of God in everything and everyone around you and you shift into higher consciousness."
"you know, a daydream properly utilized can be the most powerful force in the universe. One need only dream of freedom to begin to break the spell of enslavement."
"Given certain known factors in an equation and the equation comprising a situation of absolute need - any form of need - you can predict the results. Leave a sick junkie in the back room of a drugstore and only one result is possible."
"But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'? I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen' Stuck in my throat."
"If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st But keep that count'nance still."
"A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it."
"I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime."
"If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now."
"I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need to. If the thing is true, why there it is."
"Animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do.We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do. [. . .] The animals need only be and do.We're yoked, and they're free. So to be with an animal is to know a little freedom."
"For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth."
"We need to really do something about the world. Otherwise, we're all going to blow up together."
"We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests. And that's where I put myself: as a storyteller. Not necessarily a high priestess, but certainly the storyteller. And I would love to be the storyteller of the tribe."
"Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously."
"I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work."
"But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith."
"I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn."
"I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do."
"He told me once to be brave, and though I have stood still while knives spun toward my face and jumped off a roof, I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do."
"Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help."
