"Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness."

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Source : Esther Perel (2009). “Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence”, p.25, Harper Collins

Esther Perel

#Two Quotes #Needs Quotes #Pillars Quotes

“My God, what have we done?”
“...the key dietary messages are stunningly simple: Eat less, move more, eat more fruits and vegetables, and don't eat too much junk food. It's no more complicated than that.”

Source : "A Conversation with Marion Nestle: Straight Talk About Obesity, Nutrition, and Food Policy". Interview with Jon Stewart, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. 2006.
“I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.”

Source : "Meet & Greet Monday : Conversations with Jonny Lang and DJ Steve Porter". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2010.
“But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?”

Source : Anthony Marra (2013). “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena”, p.51, Random House
“Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.”
“That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.”

Source : Paul Cézanne, Alberto Giacometti, Felix Andreas Baumann, Poul Erik Tøjner, Tobia Bezzola (2008). “Cézanne & Giacometti: paths of doubt”, Hatje Cantz Pub
“What is common to all paths that are spiritual is, of course, the Spirit-breath, life energy, that is why all true paths are essentially one path, because there is only one Spirit, one breath, one life, one energy in the universe. It belongs to none of us and all of us. We all share it. Spiritually does not make up otherworldly; it renders us more fully alive.”
“If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.”

Source : "Sir James Goldsmith, Financier, Dies at 64" by Youssed M. Ibrahim, www.nytimes.com. July 20, 1997.

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