"Love happens! I release the desperate need for love, and instead, allow it to find me in the perfect time-space sequence."
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"Life wants to support you. But first you need to be open to life."
"He who knoweth not what he ought to know, is a brute beast among men; he that knoweth no more than he hath need of, is a man among brute beasts; and he that knoweth all that may be known, is as a God among men."
"All we need to begin with is a # dream that we can do better than before. All we need to have is faith, and that dream will come true. All we need to do is act, and the time for action is now."
"God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking."
"If we want to know what's most sacred in this world, all we need to do is look for what is most violently profaned."
"In their presence, there's no need for continuous conversation, but you find you're quite content in just having them nearby."
"We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there."
"The Constitution needs allegiance and loyalty and renewal and understanding with each generation, or else it's not going to last."
"You don’t need a reason to be happy...your desire to be so is sufficient."
"If after having been exposed to someone's presence you feel as if you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia."
"They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it."
"Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is the question of land."
"Nevertheless, the liturgy of Ash Wednesday is not focussed on the sinfulness of the penitent but on the mercy of God. The question of sinfulness is raised precisely because this is a day of mercy, and the just do not need a savior."
"One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process."
"True #leadership isn't the bastion of a few who sit at the top ... We all need to step up, take the risk and put our interests second-not always-but when it counts."
"If Americans want prosperity, we need a grand reawakening to the incontrovertible fact that its source is entrepreneurs unfettered by meddling politicians."
"Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him."
"Business people don't need to understand designers better. They need to be designers."
"The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster."