Being loved is the problem, because love is a demand – when you’re loved, someone wants more of you.
– Stephen Grosz
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- we all try to silence painful emotions. but when we succeed in feeling nothing we lose the only means we have of knowing what hurts us and why. – Stephen Grosz
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- There must be a demand, there must be an urge and there must be a will and where there is a demand and a will, there will also be a way. – Patience Johnson
- If you demand the collective to pay for your medical expenses, then be prepared for the collective to demand to make your medical decisions for you. – AE Samaan
- What is in great demand, but scarce, is expensive, but even when wisdom is not in demand it is priceless. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The consequence of the demand for fast answers to complicated health matters is the endless demand for tests, diagnostics, and pharmaceuticals. – Archelle Georgiou
- need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power. – Henry Hazlitt
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- When you love someone, show them in words AND deeds. To hear you’re loved is nice but to feel loved is incredible. – Nina Guilbeau
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- An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- I needed someone to tell me how God could allow someone He loved to suffer so much when I wouldn’t do this to someone I hated. – Sarah Thebarge
- Maybe someday, I’d find someone who’d prove he really loved me. Someone who’d hold me rather than let me fall. Someone who’d never lie to me. – JC Reed
- Everybody wants love but not everyone wants to love. – J Limbu
- I prayed for someone to love me as much as I loved you. Eventually I came to see that that Someone was me. – Kate McGahan
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- Supply the needs first and the wants later, for one can only obtain true peace, love and joy when one supplies the needs first and not the wants. – David Benedict Zumbo
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- You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole. – John Eldredge
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- Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you’re in love with – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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- Sometimes I think gravity may be death in disguise. Other times I think gravity is love, which is why love’s only demand is that we fall. – Shaun David Hutchinson
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- There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book, and a tired man who wants a book to read. – GK Chesterton
- A beautiful woman can have almost any man she wants. A rich man can have almost any woman he wants. – Oliver Gaspirtz
- Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you. – Elizabeth Gilbert
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