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But then we never think about food more than when we are hungry and we never think about life rafts more than when we are thrown overboard.
“Build a house, and your investment returns value. Buy a couch, and the minute you take it out of the furniture store, it loses value. That's why I always say a house, you invest in; furniture, you spend money on.”
― Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
― Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
“Many women discuss with friends what's troubling them, because talking about personal problems is one of the fundamental ways that women create friendship. But when a woman's problems involve family members—which they often do—discussing personal problems means taking inside information about family members outside the family. Men, in particular, often perceive this as betrayal, because they don't understand the purpose: Men's friendships are typically built not on telling secrets but rather on sharing activities—doing things together. From Tom's point of view, Eve's talking to her friends about him was breaching the walls of the family fortress.”
― You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
― You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
“When we went against the rules we were punished; when we went along with the rules we got a reward. We were punished many times a day, and we were also rewarded many times a day. Soon we became afraid of being punished and also afraid of not receiving the reward. The reward is the attention that we got from our parents or form other people like siblings, teachers, and friends. We soon develop a need to hook other people's attention in order to get the reward.”
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“Parents often complain that their adult childhood won't let them change. Children don't want their parents to move from the home in which they grew up, or convert their old bedrooms into offices. They refuse to take their cartons out of the attic or basement and become angry at even the suggestion that their parents might show them away. We are more focused on our parents as the repositories of our childhoods, which we want to hold on to, than on the sacrifices they made for us that they might no longer want to make—such as using their own bedroom or the dining rooms as an office so we could have a bedroom.”
― I Only Say This Because I Love You: How the Way We Talk Can Make or Break Family Relationships Throughout Our Lives
― I Only Say This Because I Love You: How the Way We Talk Can Make or Break Family Relationships Throughout Our Lives
“De trădat îți poți trăda părinții, soțul, dragostea, țara, dar ce-ți mai rămâne de trădat atunci când nu mai ai nici părinți, nici soț, nici dragoste, nici țară?”
― Insuportabila ușurătate a ființei
― Insuportabila ușurătate a ființei
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