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The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air.

— Dean Ornish

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

— Nhat Hanh

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

— Henri Nouwen

This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love.

— Leonard Cohen

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

— Albert Camus

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

— D. H. Lawrence

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

— Bertrand Russell

✗Opposing Perspectives

Humans love sex, we need sex, it's how we connect, it reminds us we're alive, it's the third most basic human need, after food and good movie popcorn.

— Billy Crystal