Esther Perel Quotes
When we seek the gaze of another, it isn't always our partner we're turning away from, but the person we have ourselves become.
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I've known a lot of cowboys and a few cowgirls. They're, by and large, some of the smartest, funniest, most courteous, generous, and hardest-working people you'd ever want to know.
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No man can visualize four dimensions, except mathematically … I think in four dimensions, but only abstractly. The human mind can picture these dimensions no more than it can envisage electricity. Nevertheless, they are no less real than electro-magnetism, the force which controls our universe, within, and by which we have our being.
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The fashion industry is no more able to preserve a style that men and women have decided to abandon than to introduce one they do not choose to accept.
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What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.
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O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.
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If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
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What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story.
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A lie never lives to be old.
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The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The most successful manager leads without dictating. This is intelligent non aggressiveness.
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Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan The outward habit by the inward man.
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When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it.
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We ceased to be a band the moment we made it. It left us with nothing. We felt like a failure although we had commercial success.
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Don’t we all know how to ask questions? Of course we think we know how to ask, but we fail to notice how often even our questions are just another form of telling—rhetorical or just testing whether what we think is right. We are biased toward telling instead of asking because we live in a pragmatic, problem-solving culture in which knowing things and telling others what we know is valued.
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In general, Gazprom is doing well and is increasing export in its traditional partner countries.
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When we seek the gaze of another, it isn't always our partner we're turning away from, but the person we have ourselves become.
