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Psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, who initiated the concept of object relations, proposed that the quality of our early relations with the primary objects in our lives, usually our mothers, influences our personality development.
“There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?'
If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.”
― Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man
If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.”
― Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man
“To ask for another relationship, or another job, is not particularly helpful if we’re going to show up in the new situation exactly as we showed up in the last one.”
― Return to Love
― Return to Love
“My heart always timidly hides itself behind my mind. I set out to bring down stars from the sky, then, for fear of ridicule, I stop and pick little flowers of eloquence.”
― Cyrano de Bergerac
― Cyrano de Bergerac
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
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“And what is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamped with the immediacy of a lip, a rosy circle drawn around the verb 'to love.' A kiss is a message too intimate for the ear, infinity captured in the bee's brief visit to a flower, secular communication with an aftertaste of heaven, the pulse rising from the heart to utter its name on a lover's lip: 'Forever.”
― Cyrano de Bergerac
― Cyrano de Bergerac
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