Henri Nouwen Quotes

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.

They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.

Every human being I know craves love and affection.

The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air.

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

You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.

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.

If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.

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

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.

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.

This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.

And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.

I want you here with me To guide me, hold me, and love me now

Intimacy can be about holding someone's hand. It could be about stroking their hair.

Laughing together is as close as you can get to a hug without touching.

Food and love are all intertwined at our core level. It can be a very nurturing, wonderful, loving thing.

It would be nice to have someone to go back to, a girl to call at the end of the night after a long day.

I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.

I'll put it out there: I love getting hugs.

Everybody needs somebody.

It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out.

A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.