Dean Ornish Quotes

Every human being I know craves love and affection.

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

I wanna be loved. I just wanna be loved.

I think people desperately want to feel love.

The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food.

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?

Everybody understands companionship, wants it, gets it, no matter what it looks like.

Every one of us, no matter how damaged or abnormal or shut down, we're all looking for love. Every person needs love in this world, but our views on what love is vary enormously.

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.

How we need another soul to cling to.

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.

The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves.

I have no agenda - just to be loved.

I think people don't want be alone. Ultimately, we want to feel connected. We want to feel like there is someone who actually sees us in the world. That's the big thing: to be seen. How many people actually feel seen?

At the end of the day, we want love, and we want to feel loved.

I just longed for certain connections and attachments with another person that I really lacked, I believe, growing up.

I think it's human nature that if we don't have our own family, we will create a family, because it's human nature, and it's that element of trust and dependency and love and all of those sort of things.

One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.

I think people want love in their lives.

Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

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

I need to give affection and love, because without that, I wither. I need to give that love to someone. Without that, I'm rudderless.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.