"Our ego is our silent partner...too often with a controlling interest."

-- Cullen Hightower

#Ego Quotes #Silent Quotes #Partners Quotes

“Behind every person whoâ€™s committed an unimaginable crime is an adult who committed unimaginable violence against them as a child. All of them, as if it was plotted that way. Violence begets violence, and that violence begets even more violence.”

Source : "R. Crumb on Album Covers, Charlie Patton 78s, and Occupy Wall Street". Interview with Tim McDonnell, www.motherjones.com. November 7, 2011.
“My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.”
“If your partner asks you if something bothers you, and something bothers you, the best thing you can do is say, "Yes, it bothers me." Otherwise you create a situation where they think everything is fine, continue with the offending behavior, while you build up a secret reservoir of resentment that will eventually come pouring out, to their shock.”
“He is strong, and lithe, and certain. And he is mine.”
“Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille.”
“There are significant relationships, of course, between wanting things and caring about them..The notion of caring is in large part constructed out of the notion of desire. Caring about something may be, in the end, nothing more than a certain complex mode of wanting it. However, simply attributing desire to a person does not in itself convey that the person cares about the object he desires.”
“...there is no such thing as a charmed life, not for any of us, no matter where we live or how mindfully we attend to the tasks at hand. But there are charmed moments, all the time, in every life and in every day, if we are only awake enough to experience them when they come and wise enough to appreciate them.”
“You drive me crazy!" "You were always crazy. I just highlight it.”

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