“That is like throwing two virgins into a bed. Enthusiasm, passion, and ignorance are not a good combination. Someone is likely to get hurt.”

— Patrick Rothfuss , book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

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American fantasy writer 1973

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“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

“The idea that two is the ideal, and that one is only good as half of two. You are not a half, and you should never treat someone else like a half.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

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“Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt.
Do you like to hurt?
I do, I do
then hurt me.”

Conor Oberst (1980) American musician

Lover I Don't Have to Love
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

“For two personalities to meet is like mixing two chemical substances: if there is any combination at all, both are transformed.”

C.G. Jung book Modern Man in Search of a Soul

p. 49 http://books.google.com/books?id=U6lMnx8AQsYC&q=%22The+meeting+of+two+personalities+is+like+the+contact+of+two+chemical+substances+if+there+is+any+reaction+both+are%22+%22transformed%22&pg=PA49#v=onepage
Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
Variant: The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Source: Psychological Reflections: A New Anthology of His Writings 1905-61