Paul Tournier (1898–1986) Swiss physician and author, pastoral counsellor
Source: To Understand Each Other
Source: Every Which Way But Dead
Paul Tournier (1898–1986) Swiss physician and author, pastoral counsellor
Source: To Understand Each Other
“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me "I love you."”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
The Distinguished Annie Clark Tanner Lecture, 16th-annual Families Alive Conference, Weber State University, May 8, 1997 - Full text online at weber.edu http://departments.weber.edu/chfam/familiesalive/angelouspeech.html3 <br class="br">Context: I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me "I love you." … There is an African saying which is: "Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."
“He who loves trusts the loved one unreservedly, and in all things.”
Alessandro Piccolomini (1508–1579) Italian writer and philosopher
Act III., Scene III. — (Cornelio).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 261.
L’Alessandro (1544)
“He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.”
Pat Conroy book The Prince of Tides
Source: The Prince of Tides
“Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love.”
Bell Hooks book All About Love: New Visions
Source: All About Love: New Visions
“I love women who don't let themselves be tamed. Those who scratch and bite, but know how to love.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Adoro le donne che non si lasciano domare. Quelle che graffiano e mordono, ma sanno amare.
Source: prevale.net
“Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”
Karl Menninger (1893–1990) American psychiatrist