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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• The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Well

• 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

• It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Love
  • Christian
  • Difference

• 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

• I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Interesting
  • Human
  • Living

• 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

• The brain, which is plastic when young, must be exposed to certain sights early in life, or it will remain blind to those sights forever.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Life
  • Brain
  • Forever

• 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

• A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Life
  • Important
  • May

• Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Book
  • Nicest
  • Udolpho

• Gossip is the worst form of judging.

  

  Nathan Eldon Tanner
  • Judging
  • Form
  • Gossip

• 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