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"The pursuit of happiness" is an American myth. The ideologies and governments of this century that promised happiness, have left people with more material possessions, but less psychological well-being. Many of the citizens are emotionally bankrupt and unhappy. The demands of life in our current socioeconomic system require that we keep running and running with little or no breaks....Like their parents, most of the young professionals will drift through life racing for the "American Dream", going through very expensive trial-and-error lessons and struggling to achieve happiness and fulfillment. – Med Jones
Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain. – Leo Buscaglia
God doesn't require us to succeed he only requires that you try. – Mother Theresa
The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law. – Andrew Jackson, 1821
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing. – Randolph Silliman Bourne
A lion or a tiger does not need bodyguards; only the weak and the coward need warriors to protect him! A king needs an army and soldiers, because he is weak and powerless. Wherever you see someone protected; there, you will see either the weak or the coward! Strong fist does not require defenders! Shining sword is not in need of protection! – Mehmet Murat ildan
All great achievements require time. – David Joseph Schwartz
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis. – Martha Beck
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both. – Nicholas Murray Butler
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. – Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Desperate affairs require desperate remedies. – Horatio Nelson
Don't avoid people who create negative states within you. We have a tendency to turn around and walk away, but they are going to require you to reevaluate yourself and see yourself in a new light. Sally doesn't upset you. You upset you. She puts you in a negative state because she doesn't meet your expectations. Well, tough for you. – Felice Leonardo (Leo) Buscaglia, Ph.D.
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will – Thomas a Kempis
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will? – Thomas a Kempis
Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking. – Jerome Lettvin
Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability. – John Perry
I am no more humble than my talents require. – Oscar Levant
I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth. – Chief Joseph
I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself. – Oprah Winfrey
I don't hate all holidays. Just the ones that make me depressed, require me to spend time with family members that just come around for the food, and the ones that require me to get up early and go to church. Arbor Day! can't wait – Glenn Gass
I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields. – Henry Ford, 1934
I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad. – Seneca
I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid. – Dorothy Parker
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. – Henry David Thoreau

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