I just want to be loved, is that so wrong?!
Now and then it's clear to me, that need is love, and love is need.
Ultimately, the reason why love and compassion bring the greatest happiness is simply that our nature cherishes them above all else. The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.
It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.
Every human being I know craves love and affection.
I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn't just a desperate quest for positions or money. It's just love - lots of love.
Whether you're from Egypt or Argentina or Singapore or Canada, you have a need to feel important, a need to feel secure, and a need to feel loved. The culture and economics just determine how those needs are expressed.
He who is or has been deeply hurt has a RIGHT to be sure he is LOVED.
I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does.
The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air.
I don't need a great deal of love but I do need a steady supply.
The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.
At the heart of mankind's existence is the desire to be intimate and to be loved by another. Marriage is designed to meet that need for intimacy and love.
It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.
A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
I see a huge paradox in me - the intense need to be loved and the search for approval juxtaposed with the need to nurture other people, to be the mother I never had.
We all desperately need love. If a spouse in a difficult marriage will learn the love language of that spouse, and they will, with the help of God, consistently speak their love language no matter how they are treated.