Co-dependency Quote by Sharon Salzberg

“Hunger is a reliable feeling; it had a simplicity love or grief did not.”

— Justin Hill

“Over time marked with periodic starvation and after enduring a life lacking in wholesome personal habits, a person learns how to harness the effervescence…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

We all have a relentless yearning to attach and connect, to love and be loved. This relationship hunger is the fiercest longing of the…

— Dave Earley

“Do you know how when people are really hungry they will be driven to eat the inedible? Grass and soil and the like? That…

— Alissa Nutting

“When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists…

— Søren Kierkegaard

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.

— William James

“If the outer mind hungers for status, money, and applause, the inner mind hungers for harmony and connection—those moments when self-consciousness fades away and…

— David Brooks

“Idle, she writes, to imagine falling in love as a correspondence of minds, of thoughts,; it is a simultaneous firing of two spirits engaged…

— Lawrence Durrell

Love—the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as a recipient has been…

— Caroline Knapp

“Love is essential to the survival of human beings; it is the greatest spur there is to that driving impulse of every living creature:…

— Fran Cohen Praver

“To be essential to another human being, to be vulnerable, to have another assign themselves generously and selflessly is the ultimate expression of true…

— Sharon Lathan

“In a dazzling vote of confidence for form over substance, our culture fawns over the fleetingness of being “in love” while discounting the importance…

— Thomas Lewis