"We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves."

-- Henri Frederic Amiel

#Relationship Quotes

“If we seek something, that same thing is seeking us.”
“It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.”

Source : "Pat Benatar and Husband Neil Giraldo: 'We Were Two Missing Pieces That Found Each Other'". Interview with Erin Hill, parade.com. July 14, 2012.
“Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.”
“Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn.”
“Underneath me, Sam Grest - who'd been my friend and saved my life - lay perfectly still and slipped further and further into the final sleep of an unfair and horrible death.”
“The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.”
“I never imagined when I wrote my first book on Strauss that the unscrupulous elite that he elevates would ever come so close to political power, nor that the ominous tyranny of the wise would ever come so close to being realised in the political life of a great nation like the United States. But fear is the greatest ally of tyranny.”

Source : "Noble lies and perpetual war: Leo Strauss, the neocons, and Iraq". Interview with Danny Postel, www.opendemocracy.net. October 15, 2003.
“Let the young rain of tears come, let the calm hands of grief come. It's not all as evil as you think.”

Source : Rolf Jacobsen (2001). “The Roads Have Come to an End Now: Selected and Last Poems of Rolf Jacobsen”, p.17, Copper Canyon Press

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