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"One of the greatest barriers to connection is the cultural importance we place on "going it alone." Somehow we've come to equate success with not needing anyone. Many of us are willing to extend a helping hand, but we're very reluctant to reach out for help when we need it ourselves. It's as if we've divided the world into "those who offer help" and "those who need help." The truth is that we are both."
"Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty."
"The child has a primary need to be regarded and respected as the person he really is at any given time, and as the center - the central actor - in his own activity."
"I've gotten to where my hair is like my onstage prop; I need to hide behind it and throw it around - it's my slo-mo effect."
"After a disaster strikes, it can be very devastating and very challenging. You're going to need a lot of strength and energy, and the American Red Cross suggests you go for the high protein items."
"Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it."
"Any damage that's been done, you have to fix yourself because it needs fixing and there is nobody else to do the work. Blame may well be justified, but it's not going to move you forward in your life."
"Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?"
"Askin what happened to the feelin that her and me had, I pray so much about it, need some knee pads."
"There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise."
"Experience teacheth us That resolution 's a sole help at need: And this, my lord, our honour teacheth us, That we be bold in every enterprise: Then since there is no way, but fight or die, Be resolute, my lord, for victory."
"To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars."
"Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over."
"If you have 15 minutes per visit, and you spend the first 9 minutes just collecting information from them, before you do anything else, you know half of your visit is gone already. So if you have an automated system that has most of that and, and in some cases I actually have patients complete questionnaires before they come in, so I'd gotten most of the information I need to ask about, already recorded, instead of having 9 minutes I can take 3 minutes to review all this information."
"But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power...It must follow knowledge, and serve need."
"Learning how to think in the midst of fear is a lesson that everyone needs to learn."
"Everything terrible is something that needs our love."
"The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real"
"You need to be happy with yourself or you'll never be able to be happy in a relationship."
"My parents raised me to never feel like I was entitled to success.That you have to work for it. You have to work so hard for it. And sometimes then you don't even get where you need to go."
