We are never so defensless against suffering as wh... -Sigmund Freud

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We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Sigmund Freud , Psychologist
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water....
If youth knew; if age could....
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection....
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it....
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine....
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts....
I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe...
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not gro...
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home....
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Love Quotes to Explore

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?...
Love, and do what you like....
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important....
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave....
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway....
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation....
Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all...
I love the scents of winter! For me, it's all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce....
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it....
I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems....