“Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.”
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American psychiatrist 1936–2005Related quotes
“That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.”
Section 5 : Love and Marriage
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Love is an echo in the feelings of a unity subsisting between two persons which is founded both on likeness and on complementary differences. Without the likeness there would be no attraction; without the challenge of the complementary differences there could not be the closer interweaving and the inextinguishable mutual interest which is the characteristic of all deeper relationships.
Source: Marriage Rules: A Manual for the Married and the Coupled Up
“If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”
“and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.”
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
Original: Una meravigliosa relazione è composta da due persone che riescono a tornare bambini. Vivere ed amarsi da adolescenti, in un unico modo: puramente.
Source: prevale.net