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“You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you.”

Needs Enough Spiritual Wise Words Needed Satisfied Satisfying Spiritual Wisdom Oaks Self-satisfaction

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear. ~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia After the second banana slaughter”

War Enough Felt Needed Slaughter Bananas

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to the far corners of the Earth, because he needed to be rich enough to buy some land and live in peace with her for the rest of their days. It was his utter confidence in this fragile creature, that had made him fight with honor, because he knew that after a battle he could forget all the horrors of war in her arms, and that, despite all the women he had known, only there in her arms could he close his eyes and sleep like a child.”

“They wanted the real mother, the blood mother, the great womb, mother of fierce compassion, a woman large enough to hold all the pain, to carry it away. What we needed was someone who bled...mother's big enough, wide enough for us to hide in...mother's who would breathe for us when we could not breathe anymore, who would fight for us, who would kill for us, die for us.”

Real Enough Bigs Wanted Pain Mother Dies Fighting Compassion Blood Needed Wide Breathe Fierce Womb

Author:Janet Fitch

“Back and forth she went each morning by the river, spring arriving once again; foolish, foolish spring, breaking open its tiny buds, and what she couldn’t stand was how—for many years, really—she had been made happy by such a thing. She had not thought she would ever become immune to the beauty of the physical world, but there you were. The river sparkled with the sun that rose, enough that she needed her sunglasses.”

World Years Made Enough Morning Sun Needed Spring Rivers Rose Foolish Tiny Back And Forth Immune Bud Arriving Sunglasses

Book:Olive Kitteridge: Fiction

Source: Olive Kitteridge: Fiction

“Everyday he got up. Before sleep wore off, he was who he used to be. Then, as his consciousness woke, it was as if poison seeped in. At first he couldn't even get up. He lay there under a heavy weight. But then only movment could save him, and he moved and he moved and he moved, no movement being enough to make up for it. The guilt on him, the hand of God pressing down on him, saying, You were not there when your daughter needed you.”

Ifs Firsts Enough Hands Used Sleep Consciousness Movement Needed Daughter Weight Moved Lays Guilt Everyday Heavy Used To Be Get Up Poison Hands Of God Your Daughter Heavy Weights

Author:Alice Sebold

“Only you could be more important than what I wanted...what I needed. What I want and what I need is to be with you, and I know I'll never be strong enough to leave again.”

Knows Want Needs Important Enough Wanted Strong Needed Strong Enough

Author:Stephenie Meyer