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Trust is like a china plate. If you break it once, with some care and attention you can put it back together again. But if you break it again, it splits into even more pieces and it takes far longer to piece together again. If you break it more and more times, eventually it shatters to the point where it’s impossible to restore. There are too many broken pieces, and too much dust.

Without trust, the relationship doesn't actually mean anything.

Without conflict, there can be no trust. Conflict exists to show us who is there for us unconditionally and who is just there for the benefits.

When your highest priority is to always make ourselves feel good, or to always make our partner feel good, then nobody ends up feeling good.

Acts of love are valid only if they're performed without conditions or expectations.

We are defined by what we choose to reject. If we reject nothing, we essentially have no identity at all.

We all must give a fuck about something, in order to value something. And to value something, we must reject what is not that something. To value X, we must reject non-X.

We are without values and therefore live our life without any purpose.

Freedom grants the opportunity for greater meaning, but by itself there is nothing necessarily meaningful about it.

When inspiration is seen as a reward rather than a prerequisite we propel ourselves ahead. We feel free to fail, and the failure moves us forward.