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"What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedome depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs."
"If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary and eternal life force that surges and ebbs around us all the time? Apparently not. Because we have stopped paying attention."
"But we are not what the other one needs, still he is certain that I will find great love in my life someday. He is sure of it. After all, he says, beauty attracts beauty."
"I am determined to make the most of this life that I have, damn it - it's that kind of stubbornness I think we all need more of."
"You make some big grandoise decision about what you need to do, or who you need to be, and then circumstances arise that immediately reveal to you how little you understood about yourself."
"He is only happy when he can maintain himself - mentally and spiritually - at the intersection between a vertical line and horizontal one, in a state of perfect balance. For this, he needs to know where he is located every moment, both in his relationship to the divine and to his family here on earth. If he loses that balance, he loses his power."
"There is a theory that if you yearn sincerely enough for a Guru, you will find one. The universe will shift, destiny's molecules will get themselves organized and your path will soon intersect with the path of the master you need."
"the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this one) poetry."
"Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being."
"The world needs women who stop asking for permission from the principal. Permission to live their lives as they deeply know they often should. I think we still look to authority figures for validation, recognition, permission."
"All I see in the mirror every morning is a face that needs washing."
"The need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that's already crushing our young people."
"Good for Warren Buffett that he can afford to do that! Some people, sometimes, need to finance a purchase or rent a car, and a credit card becomes a necessity."
"When the message out there is so horrible that, to be gay, you can get killed for it... we need to change the message!!"
"Sometimes something being taken away from you is exactly what you need to take a look at yourself."
"Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner."
"When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating."
"Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be producing every minute of every day."
"It is true that the unknown is the largest need of the intellect, though for it, no one thinks to thank God."
"I see thee better in the dark I do not need a light."
