We all need love to live, grow, and thrive.

When infants aren't held, they can become sick, even die. It's universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

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

Of this, I am actually certain. After collecting thousands of stories, I’m willing to call this a fact: A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all women, men, and children. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.

Love exists within each of us from the moment we are born and waits to be discovered from then on.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

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

Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.

We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death and constant fear between. Our love has lifted us up, out of the dreadfulness of merely living.

Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow,

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 are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as were meant to be. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache … The absence of love and belonging will always lead to suffering.