Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person.
Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)
Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the one you love.
Inside every child is an 'emotional rani's waiting to be filled with love. When a child really feels loved, he will develop normally but when the love tank is empty, the child will misbehave. Much of the misbehavior of children is motivated by the cravings of an empty 'love tank
We all want to be liked, loved, or needed. That is fine. What is not fine is what we are willing to do to make sure we are liked, or loved or needed. When we make the needs and wants of others a priority in our lives, we devalue ourselves.
I need to be loved. I need to be nurtured. I also need peace and stability in my relationships. I can't be in volatile relationships.
I want everybody to love me because I want to love back.
Everyone understands that love comes in many different packages and is used in many different ways. You cannot love beyond your years, nor can you fail to love beneath them... In other words, I think you get the love you need when you open your heart.
This youthful heart can love you and give you what you need, but I'm too old to go chasing you around wasting my precious energy.
To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
The things I need from my husband and he needs from me are minimal - respect, support when needed, kindness, love.
Men have two basic needs. Neither of them, no matter what they say, is sex. They need love and they need work. And work takes priority over love. If a woman could know only one fact about men and work, it should be that work is the most seductive mistress most men ever have.
All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
Do I need men? I don't think it's about needing men. It's about love.
One of the things I say is, 'You cannot control your spouse, but you can influence your spouse.' And one of the ways to influence your spouse is to make sure you are meeting their need for love.
The body needs food, warmth and water, but your heart needs more.
The child who acts unlovable is the child who most needs to be loved.
Love cannot thrive simply by being offered. Sooner or later it must be accepted and reciprocated. It must be seen for what it is and nourished according to its needs, or it will die.
The thing about loving someone is that you have to love them the way they need to be loved and not the way you want to love them.
Much of the misbehavior of children is motivated by the cravings of an empty LOVE TANK.
How much do we owe the people we love? Now I would add a follow-up question: How do we cope with the fact that we can't necessarily give the people we love what they need?
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.
I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.
