"One cannot really know an other without intimacy. Detached, objective observations alone leave a surface upon which it is too easy to project one's own image or fantasies. In intimacy, one respectfully interacts with the other, invites the penetration of the other, enters into a common effort, and then the strange and distinct contours of self and other become more apparent."

-- Deena Metzger

#Self Quotes #Effort Quotes #Strange Quotes

“I definitely don't think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.”
“If you have a connection to someone, it doesn't matter what their exterior is.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You got up, and you did something. And if trying to find a way when you don't even know you can get there isn't a small miracle; then I don't know what is.”
“The media dwells mostly on negativity.”
“Find out what your gift is and nurture it.”

Source : "Katy Perry doesn't want to 'hide' from divorce" by Kara Warner, www.mtv.com. June 22, 2012.
“Beyond Bookchin”, David Watson, of Fifth Estate, argues that aboriginal society represents a viable Utopia. He quotes favourably the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins; “We are inclined to think of hunters and gatherers as poor because they don’t have anything, perhaps better to think of them for that reason as free.”
“I could not bear the deep freeze settling around my bones at the thought that yet another attempt to get out of my life alive would end in disappointment. Time became palpable and viscous. Every minute, every second, every nanosecond, wrapped around my spine so that my nerves tightened and ached. I faded into abstraction. A self-generated narcosis created a painful blank where my mind used to be.”
“Being is the great explainer.”

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