The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.
What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.
Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.