Found Quote by Alan Paton

There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life

— Madeleine L'Engle

Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.

— Lionel Shriver

She had never realized any love save love as passion. Such love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it give birth…

— Thornton Wilder

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Here libido and ego-interest share the same fate and have once more become indistinguishable from each other. The familiar egoism of the sick person…

— Sigmund Freud

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you…

— Thomas Jefferson

“one passion can only be cured by another—a misplaced love by a greater love, wrong behavior by right behavior that makes provisions for the…

— Jacques Philippe

How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can…

— Tom Robbins

Love is like an incurable disease. No one who catches it wants to recover, and all its victims refuse a cure.

— Pacifiersucker

Attachment leads to suffering.

— Anonymous

It's such a liability to love another person.

— Janet Fitch