Esther Perel Quotes
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You never know your partner as well as you think.
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Today, our sexuality is an open-ended personal project; it is part of who we are, an identity, and no longer merely something we do.
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Success, to me, is helping one person or many people counter the isolation and pseudoconnectivity of our lives by boosting their ability to connect to themselves and to others.
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Most of us will get turned on at night by the very same things that we will demonstrate against during the day - the erotic mind is not very politically correct.
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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.
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Everyone should cultivate a secret garden.
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One of the most amazing abilities of sexuality is to momentarily transcend the borders of Self into something that is no longer defined by physical property and that is utterly unique. It's really what many call a religious experience.
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In dating, if you say no, your lover goes on to the next person. In marriage, if you say no, the person stays.
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It's our imagination that's responsible for love, not the other person.
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Sex is about where you can take me, not what you can do to me.
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It isn’t so much that we want to leave the person we are with as we want to leave the person we have become.
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Marriage isn't meant to make you happy - it's there because it gives you a life in which you can find happiness.