Favorite Quotes About Sex & Love

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“I stand in awe of my body.” Henry David Thoreau

“If anything is sacred the human body is sacred” Walt Whitman

“I trust all joy.” Theodore Roethke

"The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform." Dr. Alfred Kinsey

“Sex is something you do, sexuality is something you are.”
Anna Freud

 "I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own." Woody Allen           

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.” Tom Robbins

"Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process." Isabel Allende

"For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook." Quentin Crisp

"Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle." Amy Bloom

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." Rumi

“To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.” Francois Muriac

“Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.” Mae West

"In an unconscious marriage, you believe that the way to have a good marriage is to pick the right partner. In a conscious marriage you realize you have to be the right partner." Harville Hendrix

"Be yourself. Everyone else is taken." Oscar Wilde

“Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.” Havelock Ellis

“Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction, don’t let any prude tell you otherwise.” St. Teresa of Avila

“In truth, for all its preoccupation with sex, our culture still adamantly refuses to address sexual eros with the simple wonder, open curiosity, and profound respect it deserves. And so we have no complex, imaginative and affirmative culture - written or visual - that is deliberately, honestly and sexually erotic.” David Steinberg

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