Esther Perel Quotes
Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.
Quotes to Explore
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
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My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
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And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.
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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to be alive.
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I kick-kick game, can't injure Nicki. That's why they nick-nicknamed me Ninja Nicki.
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It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those who are living in them; and still more power to do it with the rare tactfulness and tenderness of the Galilean preacher.
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The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.
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To serve the Word is to fulfill the highest function of which man is capable.
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I pulled Lena's necklace out of my pocket. I let the charms roll around in my palm, but they were tangled and meaningless without her. The necklace was heavier than I imagined, or maybe it was the weight of my conscience.
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We're under pressure because we haven't reached the point where we can form a stable government yet.
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I think what's keeping me making music - the money is great, but I make music for the visibility.
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Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.
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I know that social media's said to be a really dangerous place, and it is.
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I find that I get very excited about what my students are up to and that I get to be the hurdle they need to jump over.
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Beg, borrow, steal, Africa needs to build infrastructure.
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I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.
