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  • #1
    Esther Perel
    “Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity. At the same time, we expect our committed relationships to be romantic as well as emotionally and sexually fulfilling. Is it any wonder that so many relationships crumble under the weight of it all?”
    Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic

  • #2
    Esther Perel
    “Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.”
    Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic

  • #3
    Esther Perel
    “Our partner's sexuality does not belong to us. It isn't just for and about us, and we should not assume that it rightfully falls within our jurisdiction.”
    Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic

  • #4
    Esther Perel
    “It's hard to experience desire when you're weighted down by concern.”
    Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic

  • #5
    Esther Perel
    “The best ideas rarely arise in one isolated mind, but rather develop in networks of curious and creative thinkers.”
    Esther Perel, The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity

  • #6
    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #7
    You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you
    “You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.”
    Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

  • #8
    Ayn Rand
    “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
    Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

  • #9
    Ayn Rand
    “Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality. An error of knowledge is not a moral flaw, provided you are willing to correct it; only a mystic would judge human beings by the standard of an impossible, automatic omniscience. But a breach of morality is the conscious choice of an action you know to be evil, or a willful evasion of knowledge, a suspension of sight and of thought. That which you do not know, is not a moral charge against you; but that which you refuse to know, is an account of infamy growing in your soul. Make every allowance for errors of knowledge; do not forgive or accept any break of morality.”
    Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

  • #10
    May Sarton
    “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
    May Sarton

  • #11
    George Orwell
    “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
    George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

  • #12
    Charlotte Eriksson
    “I am not a Sunday morning inside four walls
    with clean blood
    and organized drawers.
    I am the hurricane setting fire to the forests
    at night when no one else is alive
    or awake
    however you choose to see it
    and I live in my own flames
    sometimes burning too bright and too wild
    to make things last
    or handle
    myself or anyone else
    and so I run.
    run run run
    far and wide
    until my bones ache and lungs split
    and it feels good.
    Hear that people? It feels good
    because I am the slave and ruler of my own body
    and I wish to do with it exactly as I please”
    Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine

  • #13
    Audre Lorde
    “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
    Audre Lorde

  • #14
    Sonya Renee Taylor
    “Systems do not maintain themselves; even our lack of intervention is an act of maintenance. Every structure in every society is upheld by the active and passive assistance of other human beings.”
    Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

  • #15
    Sonya Renee Taylor
    “Equally damaging is our insistence that all bodies should be healthy. Health is not a state we owe the world. We are not less valuable, worthy, or lovable because we are not healthy. Lastly, there is no standard of health that is achievable for all bodies.”
    Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love



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