Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.

The body needs food, warmth and water, but your heart needs more.

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

Whether you're from Egypt or Argentina or Singapore or Canada, you have a need to feel important, a need to feel secure, and a need to feel loved. The culture and economics just determine how those needs are expressed.

She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.

What do people want? Well, you really can’t talk about wants until you talk about needs.

Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink.

Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival - to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated.

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

What people need and what they want may be very different.

Man does not live by bread alone, even presliced bread.

Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.

It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others.

We all think we're different, but when it comes around, we end up needing the same things. Somebody to love us. Somebody to respect us.

loneliness has its own needs!

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.

The need to eat, sleep and dry out plays havoc with your sense of wonder.

Environmentalism is a luxury. Just like being a vegetarian is a luxury. When you have to worry about eating - you're not going to be worried about where the food's coming from, or who made your shoes. Poverty, whether planned or not planned, is a way of making environmentalism moot.

If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face...

Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

Every human being needs to feel safe and secure in their life.

A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to relieve intolerable oppression. … I know of no one, outside of Patrick Henry, willing to die for an abstraction.