"The truth about intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves."

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Source : James Hollis (1993). “The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife”, p.47, Inner City Books

James Hollis

#Intimate Quotes #Our Relationship Quotes

“The thing about Uggs is that they're so comfortable. Once you've worn them, you don't want to go back.”

Source : Interview with Camilla Johnson-Hill, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2010.
“Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.”
“IBM customers of any size can now rest assured that Double-Take, the most innovative, flexible and reliable data protection solution on the market, is proven to integrate easily into their IBM infrastructure.”
“Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.”

Source : Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.122, Random House
“Iâ€™ve always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.”
“With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.”
“I quickly convinced myself that the true key to material happiness lay in a modest standard of living which could be achieved with little difficulty under almost all economic conditions.”
“My mother had a life-altering stroke when I was nineteen and she died when I was twenty-three. I'm now older than my mother when she died and my relationship with her has really changed over these many years. I continue to stay interested in her and I know her differently now. Losing my mother, losing dear friends, is now part of the fabric of my being alive. And the fabric keeps changing, which is interesting.”

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