{"quotes":[{"text":"You think you know what you want and how it's all supposed to turn out. When all is said and done, you get what you need. You know in the end that what you need is what you really wanted all along.","author":"Kate McGahan","tags":["desire","life","needs-and-wants"],"id":10189,"author_id":"Kate+McGahan"},{"text":"The moment you learn to separate your wants from your needs, your vision becomes clearer.","author":"Kemi Sogunle","tags":["needs-and-wants","vision","visions-in-life","wants"],"id":41775,"author_id":"Kemi+Sogunle"},{"text":"All I need is you even though I don't know if I can have you.","author":"Fatma Alfalasi","tags":["have-faith","having","love","need","needs","needs-and-wants","wanting-wanting-and-needs"],"id":42132,"author_id":"Fatma+Alfalasi"},{"text":"What matters most, God was there for me, when I need him.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["answered-prayers","belief","believe-in-god","christian","christianity-faith","faith","faith-strength","god-s-grace","need","needs","needs-and-wants","needy","prayer","prayers-answered","praying-life","religion-spirituality","religous-faith","spiritual","uplifting","wants"],"id":57704,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"If all you do is think about what you need, you’re no better than an animal in the woods, and no smarter either. To be human, you’ve got to want. It makes you smarter and stronger.","author":"Dan Groat","tags":["animal","human","humanity","need","needing","needs","needs-and-wants","smart","smarter","strong","stronger","want","wanting","wants"],"id":60700,"author_id":"Dan+Groat"},{"text":"In times of your need, you will know those who really love you.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["helping-others","helping-people","humanity-advice","humanity-and-society","love","need-for-love","needs","needs-and-wants","needy","support"],"id":64458,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Sometimes the best things for us aren't necessarily the things we want.","author":"Sara Farizan","tags":["desire","inspirational","life","needs-and-wants","want"],"id":67898,"author_id":"Sara+Farizan"},{"text":"We get so beat down by what we need, sometimes we forget how to want.","author":"Dan Groat","tags":["need","needing","needs","needs-and-wants","want","wanting","wants"],"id":88668,"author_id":"Dan+Groat"},{"text":"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.","author":"David Benedict Zumbo","tags":["inspirational","joy","life-lessons","life-philosophy","love","needs-and-wants","peace-of-mind","peaceful","supply-and-demand"],"id":122007,"author_id":"David+Benedict+Zumbo"},{"text":"When we stake a claim to the needs and wants of our life, we may easily fail to live up to the standards of others. Empathy and connectedness, however, might bridge the gap, by stirring our consciousness of the sensitive queries and by assessing the intricate framework of our surroundings with their countless, prickly nitty-gritties. ('Absence of Desire').","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["absence","assess","bridge-the-gap","connectedness","consciousness","countless","desire","empathy","fail","framework","intricate","life","live-up-to","needs-and-wants","nitty-gritty","prickly","query","sensitive","stake-a-claim","standards","stir","surroundings"],"id":179650,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}