Love Quotes

The force that moves poets, philosophers, and ordinary people to extraordinary acts.

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"The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that he can love his wife."
Victor Frankl
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"Real love is not about possession; it is about allowing another person to be fully themselves."
Karen Horney
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"Love without understanding is merely attachment."
Karen Horney
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"We cannot love others until we stop punishing ourselves for being human."
Karen Horney
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"We seek in others what we have forbidden in ourselves."
Karen Horney
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"Love grows in the space between acceptance and aspiration."
Karen Horney
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"Real intimacy requires the courage to let someone see our real self."
Karen Horney
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"Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality."
Victor Frankl
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"The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is."
Victor Frankl
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"Love and beauty are three things that reveal the deepest truth about human existence."
Victor Frankl
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"Communitas is a rare and precious state."
Victor Turner
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"Connection between people transcends individual boundaries."
A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
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"Love is the recognition of the other as oneself."
Pierre Clastres
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"The love that lasts is not passion but commitment through change."
Pierre Clastres
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"Love is a system of mutual recognition"
Gregory Bateson
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"To understand love in another culture, forget what love means in yours."
Bronislaw Malinowski
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"Love binds communities together across generations."
Alfred Kroeber
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"Love is the deepest cultural universal."
Alfred Kroeber
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"Love is the deepest form of pattern recognition."
Gregory Bateson
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"It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear can tend to produce love."
Margaret Mead
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"We need to expand the circle of our love to include the whole of humanity."
Margaret Mead
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"Communal experience breaks down the barriers between self and other, creating profound connection."
Victor Turner
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"In communal ritual, the individual paradoxically becomes most fully themselves by losing themselves."
Victor Turner
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"In communal ritual, the individual and the group become indistinguishable."
Victor Turner
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"The liminal space is the only place where authentic human connection is possible."
Victor Turner
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"Love is the mystery of existence."
Oswald Spengler
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"Love transcends reason."
Oswald Spengler
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"Love is the recognition of unity within apparent separation."
Gregory Bateson
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"Knowledge without love is merely information."
Gregory Bateson
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"Love, like all human emotions, is shaped by the culture in which it blooms."
Bronislaw Malinowski