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It is better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
It is better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For read more
The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few who can acquire a sense of worth by developing and employing their capacities and talents. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy.
People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.
People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.
We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt read more
We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, read more
There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are, when you don't come home at read more
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are, when you don't come home at night.
A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with read more
A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture read more
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer