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- Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing;…
- It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
- I need you because I love you.
- Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination....
- Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him with…
- The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real…
- To be loved because of one's merit, because one deserves it, always leaves doubt; maybe I did not please the person whom I want to…
- If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.
- Love is a power which produces love.
- I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself.
- To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.
- Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.
- Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. .... For the man an attractive girl…
- Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to love. Hence the…
- People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.
- The third error leading to the assumption that there is nothing to be learned about love lies in the confusion between the initial experience of…
- In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence, God’s justice, God’s…
- Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself.
- Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.
- In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not only…
- Love is hot a higher power which descends upon mn nor a duty which is imposed upon him; it is his own power by which…
- That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In…
- Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life.
- Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.
- Love is active penetration of the other person, in which my desire to know is stilled by union. In the act of fusion I know…
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- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. — Dario Argento
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide