1120 – “She Did Not Need Much”, a poem by Starra Neely Blade

She did not need much,
wanted very little.
A kind word, sincerity,
fresh air, clean water,
a garden, kisses,
books to read,
sheltering arms, a cosy bed,
and to love and be loved in return.

-Starra Neely Blade

1076 – “Now we all have a great need for acceptance, but you must trust that your beliefs are unique, your own, even though others may think them odd or unpopular, even though the herd may go, ‘that’s baaaaad.'”

-John Keating (Played by Robin Williams) in Dead Poets Society

936 – “Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”

-anonymous [Often misattributed to Saint Francis of Assisi]

703 – “Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?”

–Kainene in a letter to Richard Churchill in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun

674 – “The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach.”

–Franklin D Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States

260 – “Si enim hortus et in bibliothecam: omne opus habes.”

“If you have a garden in your library, you have everything you need.”

–Marcus Tullius Cicero

256 – “God doesn’t give you the people you want, he gives you the people you need. To help you, to hurt you, to leave you, to love you, and to make you the person you were meant to be.”

–anonymous

204 – “The ones who are hardest to love… are usually the ones who need it the most.”

–Socrates in Peaceful Warrior (Kevin Bernhardt)