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Love Relationships Quotes
On Love
You must love yourself before you can love another.
To love at all is to be vulnerable.
When honor ourselves and give out of that honoring, our giving is very clean. If we are not honoring ourselves, our giving has strings attached and is uncomfortable for the giver and the receiver.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
Maybe it’s not as important if you love someone, as it is what kind of person you become when you are with them.
You can not love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.
"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Never sleep with anyone crazier than yourself.
Relationship as a Partnership
A romantic relationship is based on euphoria. And after the romance is gone, disillusion appears. A spiritual relationship can have its romantic moments.
Love takes time. First there’s the physical attraction. Then, later, comes the giving and sharing.
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?
All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon sand.
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
The first duty of love is to listen.
Your partner is not there to meet your needs, but rather to be your companion for spiritual growth.
When you have to resort to force, you’ve already lost.
Often the problem is not how things are. It’s how you see they are.
We can only learn to love by loving.
"The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence."
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give takes courage, because we do not want to leave ourselves open to hurt.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Jung
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look that becomes a habit.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly both partners might have found more suitable mates. But the real soul mate is the one you are actually married to.
A good marriage is one that allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"
"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
"We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection."
Christianity and Sex
The church has traditionally exercised control through suppression, with the perfect example being the religious life itself. Since ‘sex is evil,’ you take a vow of chastity in which you totally deny yourself a gift that God created and this is beautiful and good.
The church and sex: Never had it. Can’t find it. Don’t want anybody else to get it.
Where there is no contradiction between thought and feeling there is wisdom. Jung
What is moral is what you feel good after.
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