“You do not have to do anything special to get love. The only thing that is ever required of you is to be who you are and feel good about it.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“I guess we all wanna be loved. It’s hard to say no to that, no matter who it’s coming from.”— Scott Buck, Ruth Fisher, Frances Conroy, imdb.com
“Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.”— Baron de Montesquieu, amazon.com
“Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.”— Alice Walker, amazon.com
“Why do we want to live for ever? Because we hope that tomorrow will bring us someone we can love. Because we want to live another day with the person we love beside us. Because we want to find someone who deserves our Love and who, in turn, will know how to love us as we deserve to be loved.”— Henry Drummond, amazon.com
“I know people who have a lot of money, and they get testimonial dinners and they get hospital wings named after them. But the truth is that nobody in the world loves them. If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.”— Warren Buffett, businessinsider.com
“For so long, I've only had one-sided feelings for other people. I've completely forgotten how good it feels to be loved.”— Hinako Takanaga, amazon.com
“Perhaps we should love ourselves so fiercely, that when others see us they know exactly how it should be done.”— Rudy Francisco, twitter.com
“You are not broken. You can love and be loved, despite what may feel like the eternally brutal nature of the world. Even when you’re drowning and so far under, there is always time to reach for someone who will teach you how to breathe again.”— Jessica Park, amazon.com
“We forget that we are loveable. We forget that we’re desired. We forget that we are anything other than the hard-shelled, busybody workaholics that we’ve all been trained to behave as. We forget that we, too, merit adoration.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“We're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain and dull. If we love and allow ourselves to be loved... Well, a person who loves is the most precious thing in the world, worth all the fortunes that ever were.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“The things you have in your life that make you feel unlovable and small can go away. They have as much power as you give them.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com