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Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
Erich Fromm

Love, Immature, Says

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby

Wise, Stupid, Advice

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama

Religion, Kindness, Heart

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa

Nature, God, Friend

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama

Kindness, Heart, Brain

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Steve Jobs

Life, Change, Morning

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
Audrey Hepburn

Give, Born, Terrible

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert Einstein

Happy, Else, Fruit

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
Dalai Lama

Yourself, Desire, Practice

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
Maya Angelou

Life, Through, Learned

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
Charles M. Schulz

Love, Hurt, Chocolate

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato

Good, Bad, Find

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard

Friends, Explain, Anyway

God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.
Joel Osteen

God, Yourself, Mistake

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Creative, Nation, Question

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
Mother Teresa

Love, Money, Giving

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
Max de Pree

Beautiful, May, Give

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas Fuller

Cannot, Others, Forgive

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
Marilyn Monroe

Alone, Someone, Feeling

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I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
Douglas Adams

End, Wanted, Almost

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
Mark Twain

Success, Ignorance, Confidence

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou

History, Courage, Pain

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
Henry Ford

Work, God, Best

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Plutarch

Change, Friend, Changes

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
Mark Twain

Life, Ignorance, Confidence

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.
Emmanuel Teney

Faith, Great, Control

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
Barack Obama

Work, Nice, Live

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
John Lennon

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
Sun Tzu

Fear, Yourself, Enemy

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.
Audrey Hepburn

Yourself, End, Help

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