"The coward threatens when he is safe."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von | Coward and Cowardice | 1 bookmarks

"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de) | Hope | 28 bookmarks

"Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient?"

Proust, Marcel | Neurosis | 2 bookmarks

"Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?"

Goldman, Emma | Marriage | 2 bookmarks

"Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing."

Goldman, Emma | Jealousy | 5 bookmarks

"Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds."

Dryden, John | Love | 3 bookmarks

"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."

Donne, John | Love | 2 bookmarks

"Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild."

Delp, Alexis | Love | 6 bookmarks

"Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding."

Davis, Bette | Love | 1 bookmarks

"Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce | Love | 9 bookmarks