You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
Mick JaggerMostra la citazione in tedesco
The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed into the background. 'But what happens to man's desires when there is plenty of food and his belly in chronically filled? At once, other (and higher) needs emerge and these, rather than the psychological hungers, dominate the organism.
Betty FriedanEarth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
Mahatma GandhiTag: inspirational man environment earth greed indulgence need conservation bounty
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 RobinsonTag: loss foreshadowing shadow need wish lack longing crave craving wholeness
Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
VoltaireTag: evil work greed need boredom labor vice want weariness
I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.
Vladimir NabokovTag: reader need imagine exist
Every age, and especially our own, stands in need of a Diogenes; but the difficulty is in finding men who have the courage to be one, and men who have the patience to endure one.
Jean le Rond d'AlembertTag: courage patience endurance difficulty need diogenes
Not even need and love can defeat fate...
Ursula K. Le GuinThis 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.
Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.
Margaret MeadTag: human companionship lonely need
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