John Ruskin Quotes

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

I think you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It's not as much about them loving you - it's about you needing to love people.

The purpose of life is to be loved by as many people as possible among those you want to have love you

It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.

What can pay love but love?

…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.

Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.

The most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

They say everyone needs something to love.

I think people talk about one love, but there is the need to love and the need to be loved are not the same thing and I suppose that's... and it's working that out is part of growing up.

Lovers to-day and for all time Preserve the meaning of my rhyme: Love is not kindly nor yet grim But does to you as you to him.

Well one thing's for sure.. all you really need is love.

Is it possible really to love other people? If I’m lonely and in pain, everyone outside me is potential relief—I need them. But can you really love what you need so badly? Isn’t a big part of love caring more about what the other person needs? How am I supposed to subordinate my own overwhelming need to somebody else’s needs that I can’t even feel directly? And yet if I can’t do this, I’m damned to loneliness, which I definitely don’t want … so I’m back at trying to overcome my selfishness for self-interested reasons.

Wherever you go, in every country, on every continent, people yearn and hunger for one thing: to love and be loved.

If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.

Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.

I majored in psychology, and I still love listening to people's problems.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

I love, I love human beings, studying them.

I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

I love human beings. I believe that there is so much to learn from every person you meet, including a child.

I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.

Everybody needs love. Everyone deserves it.