What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.

We fall in love with people and possessions only to be tortured by anxiety for them.

What we desire makes us vulnerable.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

We put so much of our time and energy into making sure that we meet everyone’s expectations and into caring about what other people think of us, that we are often left feeling angry, resentful and fearful.

We all want to be loved, don't we? Everyone looks for a way of finding love. It's a constant search for affection in every walk of life.

We search for love outside ourselves when love is all around us. Love is everywhere, but we don’t have the eyes to see. Our emotional body is no longer tuned to love. We are so afraid to love because it isn’t safe to love. The fear of rejection frightens us. We have to pretend to be what we are not; we try to be accepted by our partner when we don’t accept ourselves. But the problem is not that our partner rejects us. The problem is that we reject ourselves, because we are not good enough, because that is what we believe.

So often we fail to acknowledge what we have because we’re so concerned about what we want.

Although Love is always what we want, we are often afraid of Love without consciously knowing it, and so we may act both blind and deaf to Love’s presence.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us

The desire to be pitied or to be admired often forms the greater part of our confidence.

The woman afflicted by the need for adoration cannot have a free moment of real joy away from her obsession with self; she is slave to the never-ending quest for youth and beauty and social acceptance.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.