Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, While loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao-tzu
Mutual vulnerability is one of the great gifts of love: giving the other sufficient emotional space in which to live and express their soul, with its reasonable and unreasonable ways, and then to risk revealing your own soul, complete with its own absurdities.
- Thomas Moore
When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love.
- Robert Fulghum
One must learn to love and to through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always toward the other soul.
- D. H. Lawrence
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
- Piere Teilhard de Chardin
How dificult sheer surrender is. Many homan beings long for friendship and love, and in this they basically long for surrender of themselves, in which their being is to be fulfilled. Yet they are incapable of taking the ddecision of unreserved surrender in the encounters of life, or trusting simply, without being able to hold on to a support, without a grarantee. Many a friendship and many a marriage is wrecked by one's inability to win this victory over one's self.
- Rudolf Bultmann
There resides a great mystery in everything erotic as there is in gravity itself...The erotic may constantly elude the probing of our intellect. In our attempts to understand or appreciate it, we may not get much beyond a sense of wonderment.
- Irving Singer
Nobody knows or ever will know everything they need to know about love. Anyone who says they fully understand love is either lying, stupid, or dead.
- Robert Fulghum
Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a stage of vulnerability.
- J Krishnamurti
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