#need

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#craving #foreshadowing #lack #longing #loss

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need. ↗

— Mick Jagger

#need #desire

I think being a competitive diver for years helps you focus and dedicate yourself to what's needed. ↗

— Jason Statham

#competitive #dedicate #focus #helps #i

Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it. ↗

— Meghan O'Rourke

#need #want #memoir

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#bathe #be yourself #goose #itself #make

That's how they say it: He loves you in his own way. Well, what about my way? What if I need for him to love me in my way? ↗

— Tammara Webber

#needs #parental-love #love

In the desert, the only god is a well. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#desert #desolation #faith #fountain #god

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#built #castles #foundations #lost #need

We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed. ↗

— Justin Torres

#child #children #family #kids #love

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ↗

— Anne Frank

#how #improve #moment #need #nobody