"Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose, or, better still, jump in the water and swim for the shore."

Szasz, Thomas on insecurity
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"Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them."

Carroll, Pat on love
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"Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade."

Buscaglia, Leo on love
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"If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable."

Breton, Andre on love
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"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear."

Bible on love
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"This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]"

Bible on love
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"If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile."

Barry, Lynda on love
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"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

Aurelius, Marcus on love
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"A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime."

Auden, W. H. on love
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"In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes."

Ashley, Elizabeth on love
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"Well-ordered self-love is right and natural."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on love
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"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person."

Anderson, Margaret on love
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"Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on love
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"Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it."

Allen, Woody on love
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"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."

Allen, Woody on love
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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

Miller, Henry on insecurity
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"Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old."

Ciardi, John on love
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