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Mostly About Love

"Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking."

C.G. Jung

Mostly About Love

"It is not beauty that makes a woman the object of love, it is love that makes a woman beautiful."

Sappho

Mostly About Love

"Being suitable for each other is one thing, being the One for each other is another."

Hobby Joy

Mostly About Love

"To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love."

Thich Nhat Hanh

Mostly About Love

"The gods favor the bold."

Ovid

Mostly About Love

"One can have sex without love, but one cannot have real love without sex."

Hobby Joy

Mostly About Love

"The greatest lovers are so from the strength of their ego."

Friedrich Nitzsche

Mostly About Love

"Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable."

Wizard of Oz

Mostly About Love

"I still believe and connect to God. When I was 12 or 13 I had a mystical experience where I met and started my journey of being and growing in love with God. That experience and relationship to me is the source and essence of true love. That relationship and the presence of God in my life is part of my core being and self."

Alice Fleisher

Mostly About Love

"We fall in love not just with a person wholly external to us but with a fantasy of how that person can fill what is missing from our interior lives."

Adam Phillips

Mostly About Love

"Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory."

Milan Kundera

Mostly About Love

"As they say, it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

They

Mostly About Love

"Craving, or appetite, has very little respect for its object of desire. "

St. Augustine

Mostly About Love

"Acts of love are an antidote to falling into ruts. They drive us out of our dull complacency and help us to see the world in a new light."

Ancient Wisdom

Mostly About Love

"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."

Joan Crawford

Mostly About Love

"Love is the element that though physically unseen is as real as air or water. It is an acting, living, moving force, it moves in waves and currents like those of the ocean."

Prentice Mulford

Mostly About Love

"To love is indeed nothing else than to crave something for its own sake."

St. Augustine

Mostly About Love

"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."

Audrey Hepburn

Mostly About Love

"Whoever knows the gathering together into the most intimate only through suffering, does not know the illuminating grace of love."

Luce Irigaray

Mostly About Love

"Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except for love."

Susan Sontag

Mostly About Love

"Love is life's biggest treasure."

Emma Goldman

Mostly About Love

"The virtue of love lies in its unpredictable ability to break molds and render freshness."

Hobby Joy

Mostly About Love

"If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them, they could perceive what they have made of us."

Albert Camus

Mostly About Love

"Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation, but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one other)."

Milan Kundera

Mostly About Love

"Love is giving something you haven't got to someone who doesn't exist."

Jacques Lacan

Mostly About Love

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

Friedrich Nietzsche

Mostly About Love

"Eventually, soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place."

Anonymous

Mostly About Love

"Love is an extraordinary problem-solving, thermo-dynamic subsystem."

Prof. Dr. Gestalt, PhD

Mostly About Love

"When in love, one has no further wants, only needs."

Hobby Joy

Mostly About Love

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

Anais Nin

Mostly About Love

"I'll not leave you unless I find someone I love more."

Margaret Mead

Mostly About Love

"Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do."

Henry Wheeler Shaw

Mostly About Love

"Whosoever loves much performs much and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done!"

Vincent van Gogh

Mostly About Love

"Love - amorous or erotic love that is - is a fascination with and delight in each other."

HobbyJoy

Mostly About Love

"We can't tell ourselves whom to fall in love with."

David Hume

Mostly About Love

"The combination of these two elements, enchantment and surrender, is, then, essential to the love we are discussing. What exists in love is surrender due to enchantment."

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Mostly About Love

"If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me."

W. H. Auden

Mostly About Love

"The writer who deals with a sexual theme is always in danger of being accused...of an undue obsession with his subject."

Bertrand Russell

Mostly About Love

"Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."

Iris Murdoch

Mostly About Love

"What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?"

Alain Badiou

Mostly About Love

"Seduce my mind and you can have my body. Find my soul and I am yours forever."

Anonymous

Mostly About Love

"Love is not a child's play."

Hobby Joy

Mostly About Love

"I'll love myself some ice cream."

She said...

Mostly About Love

"It is true we love life; not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love. But there is always, also, some method in madness."

Friedrich Nietzsche

Mostly About Love

"In order for love to be authentic, it must be reciprocal and non-exploitative."

Simone de Beauvoir

Mostly About Love

"If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues."

Edward George Bulwer - Lytton

Mostly About Love

"Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused."

Paulo Coelho

Mostly About Love

"Uniformity kills love, for as soon as the spirit of method mingles in an affair of the heart, the passion disappears, languor supervenes, weariness begins to wear, and disgust ends the chapter."

Ninon de l'Enclos

Mostly About Love

"Romantic love is when it wants to last forever, real love is when and while it lasts, and true love is when it has endured the ups and downs of life."

HobbyJoy

Mostly About Love

"Look. You can't plan out your life. What you have to do is first discover your passion, that is, what you really care about."

Barack Obama

Mostly About Love

"The first, the second, or maybe the third. I don't care about your past. As long as you promise me that I will be your last."

Anonymous

Mostly About Love

"True love is not what stands many years of separation, but the one which withstands many years of intimacy."

Helen Rowland

Mostly About Love

"Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."

Franklin P. Jones

Mostly About Love

"I am in love with love."

Cupid

Mostly About Love

"What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil."

Friedrich Nietzsche

Mostly About Love

"Love - amorous passions and good or bad choices."

Hobby Joy

Mostly About Love

"The more one judges, the less one loves."

Honoré de Balzac

Mostly About Love

"Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion."

Miguel de Unamuno

Mostly About Love

"A woman in love will forgive a big indiscretion, but not a little infidelity."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Mostly About Love

"Love and dignity cannot share the same abode."

Ovid

Mostly About Love

"Love is not beholden, though everlasting it might be."

Laurence Thomas

Mostly About Love

"Fearlessness is what love seeks. Love as craving is determined by its goal, and this goal is freedom from fear."

St. Augustine

Mostly About Love

"What is worse, regretting a dull life or risking a broken heart?"

Ancient Wisdom

Mostly About Love

"Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms."

Kahlil Gibran

Mostly About Love

"What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame but something wild to run with."

Anonymous

Mostly About Love

"Never be beguiled by false promises of simplicity, because people's circumstances don't come in one size."

Polly Toynbee

Mostly About Love

"Love infiltrates every fiber of our being and every aspect of our daily lives. It is the most important factor in our mental and physical health, our longevity, and our life satisfaction."

Anna Manchin

Mostly About Love

"Don't be afraid, there's no warmth anywhere without a fire somewhere."

Hobby Joy

Mostly About Love

"Lies may make people feel better, but they do not help them to know love."

bell hooks

Mostly About Love

"Marriage is not a relation for personal pleasure, but a contract involving the ancestors, the descendants, and the property."

Chinese Woman

Mostly About Love

"Sometimes what we want is not fully known to us in advance. The details of desire and satisfaction are often discovered, and produced, in the sexual moment."

Heidi Matthews

Mostly About Love

"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you."

Anaïs Nin

Mostly About Love

"An honorable human relationship — that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love” — is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other."

Adrienne Rich

ABCs of Love

1. Love organized in Four Domains
2. Is Human Love compatible with God’s Love?
3. Lost In Translation: Amorous Love
4. The big Question: Can Love Last?
5. Triangular Theory of Love
6. Modern Courtship to the Rescue
7. How and Whom to Bond With
8. Similarities as well as Opposites Attract
9. Kowing Attachment Styles avoids Troubles
10. Attachment, Caregiving, and Sex
11. Who Are We Going To Be?