Adam Phillips Quotes

Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.

Adam Phillips

• Ourselves
• Minimum
• Monogamy

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• Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Wife
  • Many
  • Having

• It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Mountain
  • Ourselves
  • Conquer

• We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • World
  • More
  • Ourselves

• We got ourselves into a position to win the game and we let ourselves down again. It's not good enough.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Good
  • Game
  • Position

• I understand why there would be prohibitions on straying from monogamy because of the harm that it does not only to the person who is betrayed, but also to the person who is betraying. "Betray" is a sort of shorthand for what happens.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Why
  • Betray
  • Betrayed

• It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Ourselves
  • Only

• 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
  • Said
  • Firsts
  • Able

• 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
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Fear

• Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Love Is
  • Ourselves
  • Self-Sabotage

• If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Risk
  • Ourselves
  • Emerged

• Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Social

• Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Weak
  • Ourselves
  • Withholding

• 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
  • God
  • Love
  • Approach

• To move the world we must move ourselves.

  

  Socrates
  • World
  • Move
  • Ourselves

• We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.

  

  Plotinus
  • Beauty
  • Ourselves
  • Possess

• Monogamy is the true path to happiness.

  

  Wilt Chamberlain
  • Path
  • Monogamy

• Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Men
  • Child
  • Monogamy

• I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • World
  • Minimum

• 'The 5th Wave' is sci-fi, but I tried very hard to ground the story in very human terms and in those universal themes that transcend genre. How do we define ourselves? What, exactly, does it mean to be human? What remains after everything we trust, everything we believe in and rely upon, has been stripped away?

  

  Rick Yancey
  • Ourselves
  • Remains
  • Universal

• I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • English
  • Speak
  • Languages

• People love fast. When you're fast people think you're smart, think your products are of higher quality, think your management is of higher quality, think that you're worth more and they're willing to pay more money for it. So, I'm really big into speed.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Money

• You write how you write, wherever you write.

  

  Christian Rudder
  • You
  • Write
  • Wherever

• After 15 years of singing the same 12 to 15 songs every night, it can become monotonous.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Night
  • Singing
  • Monotonous

• Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.

  

  Adam Phillips
  • Ourselves
  • Minimum
  • Monogamy