Becoming Quote by Klaus Mann

Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.

— Mahatma Gandhi

One cannot attend to oneself, take care of oneself, without a relationship to another person.

— Michel Foucault

“One can feel an attraction towards a particular person. But to release that fount of sorrow, that sense of the irreparable, those agonies which…

— Marcel Proust

“to dedicate oneself as a Victim of Love is not to be dedicated to sweetness and consolations; it is to offer oneself to all…

— St. Thérèse de Lisieux

“The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Human love is to devote a part of ourselves to the providence of another existence. To be without this devotion is to be void…

— Michael Hollingworth

“More often than not, the demons of our nature love a recluse; nobody is more vulnerable to himself than the solitary. To imagine that…

— John Burnside

“A person’s unfilled desire to find love causes human beings to engage in inexplicable behavior. A person must exhibit the maturity of the soul…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Love affairs and marriages stand or fall on this secret. Familiarity and the pedestrian realities of everyday life are the enemies of eros.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“With a clear intention and a willing spirit, sooner or later we experience the joy and freedom that arises when we recognize our common…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Among all the modes by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate that blessed bane, there are few so…

— Marcel Proust

Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another

— Anonymous