Lauren DeStefano Quotes

I constantly looked for motherly protection.

I think sometimes in relationships, ladies like having a man who takes care of them, nurtures them. If you can't find it in a man your own age, you find it in somebody who is older.

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

We are born of love; Love is our mother.

When he is sick, every man wants his mother.

Love is not enough to keep any of us alive.

Someone's going to be able to take good care of my sister. She knows how to be taken care of.

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

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

I was loved as a kid; I was raised with more love and emotional support than most folks could wish for... my memories aged nought to ten... are all bound up together in a mesh of innocence and fun.

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

Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is, sadly, true. An unhealthy mother's love is withering.

Children should always feel like the adults are living in this world to nurture them, to take care of them, to protect them from any bad thing that might come.

We're taught to take care of people we love, but sometimes you can't.

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

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

I often feel the need of a man to take care of me, even though I can certainly take care of myself.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

With all the crap that's going on around the world, you kind of want to do what you can to protect the ones you love.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need - protection and love.

Children require affection. That's very important.

One of the reasons I wanted to make 'Lean on Pete' was that it wasn't about identity. For me, it's about something more essential underneath: the need to have somewhere to live, to be safe, and have someone to look after you.

I wanted my children to never feel like they were unsafe. I wanted them to have everything they needed.

If you let a man that you love or anybody - man, woman or child that you love - sit there and destroy themselves in front of you, you're neglecting them.