"Love requires you to be physically and emotionally present. It also requires that you slow down."

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Source : Barbara L. Fredrickson, Ph.D. (2013). “Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection”, p.23, Penguin

Barbara Fredrickson

#Slow Down Quotes

“Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.”
“Also, I'm drawn to moments of ambiguity, when things could go right or they could go wrong. I'm interested in discomfort. Discomfort is a place where we're still close enough to comfort to understand our unhappiness. Most of the things we desire are things that can destroy us.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“A ghost would crawl up my leg and have sex with me at an apartment a long time ago in Texas. I used to think it was my boyfriend, and one day I woke up and it wasn't. I was freaked out about it, but then I was, like, 'Well, you know what? He's never hurt me and he just gave me some amazing sex, so I have no problem.”
“I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy.”
“Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.”
“Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.”
“The only time I had what you would call life-threatening fear was when I was on the Moon. Towards the end of our stay, we got excited and we were going to do the high jump, and I jumped and fell over backwards. That was a scary time, because if the backpack got broken, I would have had it. But everything held together.”
“There are only four things you can do on skis. Turn right, turn left, go straight, or sell them.”

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