Needed Quotes (page 159)

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• sea
• affection
• love

We need the books that affect us like disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. Franz Kafka

• god
• giving
• god is there

In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give. C. S. Lewis

• alone
• feeling
• understanding

One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone. Marcel Proust

• may
• single
• boys

The boys were amazed that I could make such a poem as that out of my own head, and so was I, of course, it being as much a surprise to me as it could be to anybody, for I did not know that it was in me. If any had asked me a single day before if it was in me, I should have told them frankly no, it was not.That is the way with us; we may go on half of our life not knowing such a thing is in us, when in reality it was there all the time, and all we needed was something to turn up that would... Mark Twain

• space
• scratched
• relaxed

Belief builds from scratch. Doesn’t have to relax, it doesn’t need space Gavin DeGraw

• moving
• die
• don't need you

It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks. Wallace Stegner

• humble
• look
• keeps

I need to look like an idiot at least twice a day to keep myself humble. Janet Evanovich

• bible
• reading
• world

We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding. Billy Graham

• end
• passion
• god

God picks up the reed-flute world and blows. Each note is a need coming through one of us, a passion, a longing pain. Remember the lipswhere the wind-breath originated, and let your note be clear. Don't try to end it. Be your note. Rumi

• world
• beautiful
• eyes

I wrote the song 'Down to Earth' a few years ago, and i was really excited to record it for My World album. It's a huge fan favourite. So many people feel where i'm coming from. It doesn't need any spectacular stage effects in the touring show; the best thing i can do is just sing it straight from my heart. I'm not afraid to show my emotions; if you love someone, you should tell them. If you think a girl is beautiful, you should say that. Usher says some songs work best when there's a sob in... Justin Bieber

• learning
• mindfulness
• power

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control. Elizabeth Gilbert

• good
• evil
• work

There is nothing so good and nothing so evil but that it shall work together for good to me, if only I believe. Yes, since faith alone suffices for salvation, I need nothing except faith exercising the power and dominion of its own liberty. Martin Luther

• time
• perfect
• may

Be open to suggestion, no one is so perfect that they may not need advice from time to time. Baltasar Gracian

• wants
• risking
• wanting

We need to take big risks if we want to find out who we are, and what we were put on this planet for. Meg Cabot

• lies
• life
• new

And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled. It can inform and lead into new places the flow of our sympathetic consciousness, and it can lead our sympathy away in recoil from things gone dead. Therefore, the novel, properly handled, can reveal the most secret places of life: for it is in the passional secret places of life, above all, that the tide of sensitive awareness needs to ebb and flow, cleansing and freshening. David Herbert Lawrence