We crave money, security, health, fulfilment, peace of mind, success, adventure or that most slippery commodity, happiness.
The search for HIV-infected partners by some clients was motivated by wishes for emotional security, support, sexual fulfilment, avoidance of stigma (Frost, Stirratt, and Ouellette 2008) and, sometimes, parenthood.
UNICEF Ireland has a driving passion to build a better world for children in which every child's right to dignity, security and self-fulfilment is achieved.
It tells us that our partners and supporters share our vision of building a better world, one in which every child's right to dignity, security and self-fulfilment is achieved.
UNICEF is guided by a vision of the world where leaders commit to use their power and influence to assure, for every child, the rights and opportunities to grow to adulthood in dignity, security and self-fulfilment - goals set out in UNICEF's Medium Term Strategic Plan (2002-2005) as well as the draft outcome document for the Special Session.
"We understand dignity as the complete fulfilment of human rights and basic security in terms of housing, access to land, health, nourishment, education, transport and leisure," it said.
Personal concerns included career fulfilment, quality of life and financial security, factors which emerge from dental students in general [ 28, 34].
Job security is a key pillar of professional fulfilment and academic research has found that feeling settled in a job can increase motivation and productivity and reduces the likelihood of staff taking time off work due to illness.
"It has," she wrote, "to do with faithfulness and idolatry, security and rootlessness, vague desires and precise fulfilments, parents and children, art and craft, success and failure".
If you think about Maslow's hierarchy of needs – the one where basic things like food and sleep are at the bottom of the pyramid, with shelter and security above it, then love and friendship, and, at the apex, complete fulfilment – the internet of things must be at the very top.
