"The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself."

-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Type Quotes #Relation Quotes #Oneself Quotes

“The adolescent does not develop her identity and individuality by moving outside her family. She is not triggered by some magic unconscious dynamic whereby she rejects her family in favour of her peers or of a larger society.... She continues to develop in relation to her parents. Her mother continues to have more influence over her than either her father or her friends.”
“Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.”
“I remember telling my classmates when I was 8-years-old that (being a sportscaster) is what I wanted to do. That was the only thing I ever wanted to do with my life.”
“The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability, that we forget they are ideas at all.”

Source : Jacob M. Appel (2014). “Phoning Home: Essays”, p.76, Univ of South Carolina Press
“Do you know what the Negro is? Animal right out of the jungle. Passion. Welfare. Easy life. That's the Negro.”
“If we take care of the inches, we will not have to worry about the miles.”
“To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.”
“History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories - triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically or dialectally - has a lot to do with whether we cut short or advance our evolution as human beings.”

Source : Grace Lee Boggs, Scott Kurashige, Danny Glover (2012). “The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century”, p.79, Univ of California Press

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