#need

You're a bad person, Ellie," he said without a trace of irony. "I'm not bad. The world is bad and I'm just trying to survive in it. ↗

— Karina Halle

#sins-needles #artists

Dimples crinkle up the skin near his lips. I will not look at his lips. How can he never have used those? That’s a crime against humanity right there. ↗

— Carrie Jones

#cute #dimples #need #crime

To quench my longing I bent me low By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow In that magical wood in the land of sleep. ↗

— Sarojini Naidu

#needs #philosophy-of-life #dreams

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#human #lonely #need #lonely

Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#virtue #wish-fulfillment #writing #virtue

This man has conquered the world! What have you done?" The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#need #virtue

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