Esther Perel Quotes

The power of transgression is the archetypal, foundational story of the Bible. We want to break our own codes - sometimes of morality, sometimes of ethics, sometimes of the power structure, sometimes of the institution of marriage - because there is freedom and power in transgression.

Esther Perel

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• Morality
• Ethics
• Code

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• Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • God
  • Said
  • Thank God

• I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Why
  • Want
  • Body

• People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • People
  • Up
  • Media

• The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • History
  • Sleep
  • Successful

• I was an early user of AOL – so early, I didn't even have a number after my user name. For me, email was once vital, both for personal and business uses.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Business
  • Me
  • Name

• Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Evil
  • Goodness
  • Vice

• Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

  

  Ralph Cudworth
  • Mind
  • Running
  • Like

• My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Age
  • Parents
  • Never

• Growing up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm added a lot to the way I taste and look at food today, and I wanted the same for my kids and other kids.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Today

• But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • People
  • Money
  • Giving

• R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Job
  • Father

• My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Father
  • Fan
  • Journalist

• If it is something that I want to do, then I don't think the audience will hate it. Unless I turn into a megalomaniac and start thinking that Salman Khan can do anything.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Thinking
  • Hate
  • Start

• Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Experience
  • Connecting
  • Dots

• I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting. The more different they are, the bigger the challenge.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Books

• I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Power
  • Learning
  • Myself

• Life stuff happens. You get knocked down, and you get back up. That's just always been my mentality. I'm not really fazed by anything. It's in the past. There's nothing I can really do about it now. You learn from it, and you move on.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Life
  • Up
  • Past

• I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Reason
  • Intellect
  • Unbearable

• I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Children
  • Movie

• Change is never easy.

  

  Sally Field
  • Change
  • Never
  • Easy

• The power of transgression is the archetypal, foundational story of the Bible. We want to break our own codes - sometimes of morality, sometimes of ethics, sometimes of the power structure, sometimes of the institution of marriage - because there is freedom and power in transgression.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Sometimes
  • Break
  • Morality