Steven Pressfield: Quotes about love

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“The opposite of love isn't hate; it's indifference”

Steven Pressfield

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.”

Steven Pressfield

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“The opposite of fear is love - love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.”

Steven Pressfield

Source: Do the Work

“The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.”

Steven Pressfield

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.”

Steven Pressfield

Source: Do the Work

“Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you're feeling massive Resistance, the good news is that it means there's tremendous love there too.”

Steven Pressfield

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“The opposite of fear," Dienekes said, "is love.”

Steven Pressfield Gates of Fire

Source: Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

“Do you love your country? […] This man, with his life, has preserved it. Bear him with honor.”

Steven Pressfield Gates of Fire

Orontes (Handing over Xeones' corpse to Athenian civilians) p. 430
Gates of Fire (1998)

“Nothing relieves Irish despair. The Irishman's complaint lies not with his circumstance, which might be rendered brilliant by labour or luck, but with injustice of existence itself. Death! How could a benevolent Deity gift us with life, only to set such a cruel term upon it? Irish despair knows no remedy. Love fades; fame is fleeting. The only cures are booze and sentiment. That's why the Irish are such noble drunks and glorious poets. No one sings like the Irish or mourns like them. Why? Because they're angels imprisoned in vessels of flesh.”

Steven Pressfield book Killing Rommel

Zachary Stein, p. 27
Killing Rommel (2008)

“I love a guy who knows how to bitch. Any moron can gripe about chow or rotations, but someone who can get exercised over architecture is my kind of dude.”

Steven Pressfield book The Profession

Gent, p. 202
The Profession (2011)