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“In a culture in which the marketing orientation prevails, and in which material success is the outstanding value, there is little reason to be surprised that human love relations follow the same pattern of exchange which governs the commodity and the labour market.”
― The Art of Loving
― The Art of Loving
“He did not want to have or to consume more, because not the acquisition of riches but the productive use of his faculties and the enjoyment of being were his goal.”
― The Art of Being
― The Art of Being
“This inner consolation is what we really crave, although our consumer culture teaches us otherwise.
No achievement or possession will bring us a lasting sense of self-worth.”
― Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love
No achievement or possession will bring us a lasting sense of self-worth.”
― Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love
“Maybe you even believe that in order to receive love you must keep giving, as if love is something that must be earned.”
― Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love
― Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love
“if it was safer to not be in our bodies as children, our response now may be to become disembodied. if we can't sense stress, pain, or fear we will feel safer detaching from our feelings. This is often how the body protects itself from annihilation.”
― Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love
― Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love
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