"More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness."
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"Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters."
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"I have so much to do today, I'll need to spend another hour on my knees."
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"What America needs now is a drink."
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"Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more."
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"I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right"
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"A Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten."
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"I'm not a prophet of doom, I'm a prophet of love. But love will bid a warning doom to the children who play on the freeway. We need to wake up."
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"I dream a world... where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!"
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"Freedom is only to be found where there is burden to be shouldered. In creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative and a need that weighs heavily upon man’s mood, so that he comes to be in a mood of melancholy. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, whether we are clearly aware of the fact or not, whether we speak at length about it or not. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, but this is not to say that everyone in a melancholy mood is creative."
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"God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?"
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"I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I've always wanted to stay true to myself, and I've managed to do that. People have to accept that."
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"I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of."
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"He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it."
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"You can't get on my level. you gon' need a space shuttle or a ladder; that's forever."
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"We cannot protect ourselves from trouble, but we can dance through the puddles of life with a rainbow smile, twirling the only umbrella we need -- the umbrella of God's love."
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"Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great."
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"The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today"
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"All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down."
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"Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment."
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