Olivia > Olivia's Quotes

Showing 1-15 of 15

like

#1

“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

149 likes

like

#2

“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

tags: love, separateness

117 likes

like

#3

“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

60 likes

like

#4

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

tags: concern, desire, relationships

35 likes

like

#5

“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

tags: best, creative, curious, ideas, isolated, mind, network, thinkers

15 likes

like

#6

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

tags: life, science, wisdom

13962 likes

like

#7

“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

tags: death, faith, going-home, grace, healing, home-going, inner-peace, innocence, killed-in-the-line-of-duty, life-and-death, light, philosophy, poem-in-your-pocket-day, rebirth, recovery, resurrection, spiritual-nature, spiritual-philosophy, spirituality, victims-of-gun-violence, victims-of-war, war, war-victims

375 likes

like

#8

“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

tags: inspirational, life

7945 likes

like

#9

“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

tags: erring, evil, knowledge, morality, responsibility

299 likes

like

#10

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

tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self

9086 likes

like

#11

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

tags: 1946, language, power-of-words, propaganda, thought

2892 likes

like

#12

“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

tags: ache, alive, alone, awake, blood, body, bright, burn, fire

469 likes

like

#13

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

45 likes

like

#14

“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

tags: implicit-bias, racism, sexism

57 likes

like

#15

“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

48 likes

All Quotes

Tags From Olivia’s Quotes

love
separateness
concern
desire
relationships
best
creative
curious
ideas
isolated
mind
network
thinkers
life
science
wisdom
death
faith
going-home
grace
healing
home-going
inner-peace
innocence
killed-in-the-line-of-duty
life-and-death
light
philosophy
poem-in-your-pocket-day
rebirth
recovery
resurrection
spiritual-nature
spiritual-philosophy
spirituality
victims-of-gun-violence
victims-of-war
war
war-victims
inspirational
erring
evil
knowledge
morality
responsibility
authenticity
self
1946
language
power-of-words
propaganda
thought
ache
alive
alone
awake
blood
body
bright
burn
fire
implicit-bias
racism
sexism