Victor Hugo Quotes

We exist in order to actualize the deepest desires of our hearts.

If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.

Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink.

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

I think there's something about having a purpose in life and a sense of belonging that is more important than money for any human being.

But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.

Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival - to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated.

When you come to the spiritual needs, the emotional needs, the needs of our inner life, then politics and business and technology are completely impotent. They are completely unable to meet and address the needs of human beings.

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness.

No matter what you achieve in life, you're always wondering, 'Is there something I should be doing? Is there something I'm missing?

Wise leaders should have known that the human heart cannot exist in a vacuum. If Christians are forbidden to enjoy the wine of the Spirit they will turn to the wine of the flesh....Christ died for our hearts and the Holy Spirit wants to come and satisfy them.

Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on.

I certainly won't have an empty life!

Quoting son, Noah Levine: Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn’t matter if you’re going to live or die, the work is always the same. (25)

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much, much more than they can stomach, but the appetite doesn't converse much with the stomach. Everyone is hungry and not only for food - for comfort and love and excitement and the opposite of being alone. Almost everything awful anyone does is to get those things and keep them.

There have been times in my life when I have felt I was lonely, but I don't think you want to live your life in order to mitigate against loneliness.

What you're really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.

"What would people say about you when you're gone?" That to me was a very important question. I thought about that for a couple of years and said, "What people say about you when you're gone doesn't matter. You're gone." What really matters is, "What do you say about yourself in the here and now? Are you proud of what you're doing?" If you had a short lease and it ended today, or it ends tomorrow, what would you wish you would have done? You better do it.

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter

I don't want to think my life as a career. I'm interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make.

The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.