"Not everything will go as you expect in your life. This is why you need to drop expectations, and go with the flow of life."
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"I need drama in my life to keep making music."
"Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story."
"Our biological body itself is a form of hardware that needs re-programming through tantra like a new spiritual software which can release or unblock its potential."
"It makes me feel the way I need to feel."
"To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments, statements or declarations. True listeners no longer have an inner need to make their presence known. They are free to receive, welcome, to accept."
"My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all."
"The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know."
"Being goal directed is not enough to conquer your enemy. To achieve your goal you need to know and be able to utilize all the resources available to you. This includes the knowledge of all those available to you as well as using the physical resources and those who control them."
"In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church"
"Every cat knows some things need to be buried."
"Sometimes you need to stay in touch but be out of reach."
"Look at us all - we are all of us lost and in all of our different ways of pretending, we all fool ourselves into the very same hell. Look at the cross - we are all of us loved and one God meets us all at the point of our common need and brings to all of us - all who will let Him - salvation."
"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."
"I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine."
"Even if it is a little thing, do something for those who have need of help."
"Never ask a barber if you need a haircut."
"I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence."
"I never wanted to be a part of planet Earth, but I am compelled to be here, so anything I do for this planet is because the Master-Creator of the Universe is making me do it. I am of another dimension. I am on this planet because people need me."
"When you need to stop an asteroid, you get Superman. When you need to solve a mystery, you call Batman. But when you need to end a war, you get Wonder Woman."