Fullness Quote by Anais Nin

Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.

— Therese of Lisieux

Some men hunger so much for love that they lose everything that is loveable about them.

— John Steinbeck

Many men admire strong women but they don't love them. Some women succeed at being strong and also tender, but most of those who…

— Elsa Schiaparelli

“The man or woman who feels strong enough for two, seeks for every other quality in a partner than strength.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is weak and…

— George Eliot

Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.

— Elbert Hubbard

Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the…

— Honore de Balzac

There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for…

— George Eliot

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

— Sakyong Mipham

Many men admire strong women, but they don't love them.

— Elsa Schiaparelli

Women must convert their love for and reliance on strength and skill in others to a love for all manner of strength and skill…

— Phyllis Chesler

~Annalove's When You Really Love A Woman Or Man ~ If when a man truly loves his woman she becomes his weakness, then men…

— Kristiana Evans