#need

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you. ↗

— Gary Paulsen

#need

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#need

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared. ↗

— Lois Lowry

#memories #pain #share #need

Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#need

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#on-writing #need

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#heartfelt #shame #sorrow #tears #need

No, I don't think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#need

We need never be ashamed of our tears. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#shame #sorrow #tears #need

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

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

— Joss Whedon

#virtue #wish-fulfillment #writing #virtue