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Sex is excitement, seeks satisfaction and soon loses interest - selfishness. Making love is passionate, fulfilling and does not look for an end - selflessness.

— Barry Long The Way In (2000)

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It is the conscious man or woman who finds the secret of happiness and contentment; and that, surely, is the ultimate success.

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

The love of man and woman is the beginning of the love of God.

Love is not a feeling ~ The Interview (1995)

Love is all around you like the air and is the very breath of your being.

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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