Hill Harper Quotes

One common desire that every human being has is to love and be loved. At the end of our lives, it's how we measure our lives.

The most real thing of all, the only thing any of us wants, is to matter to somebody. To feel and share love, even on a friendship level or as deep as a romantic one. Who doesn't want that?

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

I think everybody wants love, and everybody wants to feel alive.

Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship.

We all want to find someone and be loved.

What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.

You know, as I get older, personal happiness is all about love. It's all about love. You know, how I'm loved and how I love my family and my husband. That to me is happiness, when I feel like I am loved and I have a place to love deeply. That to me is happiness.

All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.

I like having a woman. I like having someone to come home to, to make all of the hard work feel worth it. I need someone with me. And I want someone.

I wanna be loved. I just wanna be loved.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family.

There's always a common attraction to universal needs of love and a feeling of worthiness.

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

Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

Everybody's looking for love, and you want to love somebody and be loved in return.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

When you're married, the person you would most like to love you is your spouse. And if you feel loved by your spouse, the world looks bright. But if the love tank is empty, and you don't feel loved by your spouse, the world begins to look dark.

To live with someone who likes you, and whose judgement you respect, because you love them, does make quite a difference, I find.

That's a huge part of being a human being: looking for love and finding a partner in this world. When you constantly play characters who don't have that life, it feels incomplete and not totally human.

People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community.