Emotional Needs Quotes

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread." "I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection." "I am very independent. I can look after myself but I still need a lot of love and care." "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated." "I like not only to be loved but also to be told I am loved" "The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love" "Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect." "When we seek the gaze of another, it isn’t always our partner we are turning to—it’s the other in ourselves." "Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood"