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She and her brother-in-law were both struggling to inhabit their own skin, a goal that would sound absurd to almost anyone else.
“Emotional dependency is not immature or pathological; it is our greatest strength.”
― Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships
― Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships
“Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.”
― Ethics
― Ethics
“Being the “best you can be” is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.”
― Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships
― Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships
“I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.”
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“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?”
― Adam Bede
― Adam Bede
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