Adam Phillips Quotes
Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
Adam Phillips
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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don't make it. So I tried to make it more refined. I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn't want to say or didn't want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
Agnes Varda
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There's only one of us here: What we give to others, we give to ourselves. What we withhold from others, we withhold from ourselves. In any moment, when we choose fear instead of love, we deny ourselves the experience of Paradise.
Marianne Williamson
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If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.
Marianne Williamson
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Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.
Rita Mae Brown
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Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
Robert Frost
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If only we could love ourselves enough to dare to approach God, what constructive dreams he would give us! What noble possibilities God wants to reveal to us - possibilities that would offer stimulation plus real security in service. But we feel too unworthy. So one layer of negative behavior is laid upon another until we emerge as rebellious sinners. But our rebellion is a reaction, not our nature. By nature we are fearful, not bad.
Robert H. Schuller
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We need to return to learning about the land by being on the land, or better, by being in the thick of it. That is the best way we can stay in touch with the fates of its creatures, its indigenous cultures, its earthbound wisdom. That is the best way we can be in touch with ourselves.
Gary Paul Nabhan
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I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.
Dolly Parton
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Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth.
George Perkins Marsh
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Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear, seeing it for what it is, is the only way of putting it to rest.
Harvey Fierstein
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We come into the world alone and we die alone. Why, in life, should we be any less alone?
Diogenes
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
Adam Phillips
