"It's not what you have to "do" that needs to change. It's first how you "think" that needs to change. It's who you have to "be" in order to "do" what needs to be done."
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"You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light."
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"There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus."
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"Even if you have a problem, you don't need to be one."
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"Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency."
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"We need not destroy the past. It is gone."
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"I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy."
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"If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all."
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"To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of direction. You need a commitment to something bigger and more important than yourself. You need to feel that your life stands for something, that you are somehow making a valuable contribution to your world."
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"Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world."
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"If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat."
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"To build your self image, you need to join the smile, firm handshake and compliment club."
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"See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part."
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"The purpose of faith isn't always to keep us from having trouble. It is often to carry us through trouble. If we never had any trouble, we wouldn't need any faith."
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"When we are ready to make positive changes in our lives, we attract whatever we need to help us."
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"What we need now is heroes - millions of them. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul."
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"Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things."
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"The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response."
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"Perhaps the greatest psychological, spiritual, and medical need that all people have is the need for hope."
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"There needs to be an app that edits what I say versus what I want to say."
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