Marilyn Yalom famous quotes

There is a belief that love has its own justification, that it should be experienced as passionately as possible. The French have a wonderful expression, amour passion, which is the ultimate.
-- Marilyn Yalom

#Passion #Expression #Belief

I think people are more likely to think it's better to find something new. That mentality has affected all of our thinking.
-- Marilyn Yalom

#Thinking #People #Something New

For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.
-- Marilyn Yalom

#Desire #Defects #Persons

We live in a society where we don't want to commit to another person for life. We do at the moment that we marry, but less and less people marry. We marry later, we marry less. On some level of the unconscious, we know there is less of a chance that a marriage will be life-long.
-- Marilyn Yalom

#Long #People #Levels

How many times have I heard in France of women who have been married for many years and the husband has had mistresses and you ask, "Why does she put up with it?" Because she loves him! Love is justification for so many things Americans would never put up with.
-- Marilyn Yalom

#Husband #Love Is #Years

In France, you have 900 years of romantic love going back to the troubadours and minstrels that wrote stories of Lancelot and Guinevere. You have gallantry at the highest level.
-- Marilyn Yalom

#Romantic Love #Years #Stories

Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.

From moment then to moment their desire Gained strength, and wisdom fled before love's fire; Passion engulfed them, and these lovers lay Entwined together till the break of day.

Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.

In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear.

People who think of children's nudity as a tool don't need freedom of expression.

Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been born yet. It's difficult.

I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.