The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Emotional needs are harder to satisfy than basic physical needs.
- In plain terms
- People want love more than food and it is harder to fix.
- What can you take from it?
- Address emotional hunger as seriously as physical needs.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What do you crave most?
- How do you feed your spirit?
Another view
Physical starvation is immediate and lethal if ignored.
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