We cannot all write like Lincoln or Shakespeare, but even the least gifted of us has the incredible instrument, our voice, to communicate the range of human emotions. Why would we deprive ourselves of that?
It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.
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John Joseph Powell
I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being...
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Raymond Carver
It can be difficult to leave a long-term relationship, even when our inner-wisdom tells us it's time to let go. At this point, we can choose let go and endure the intense pain of leaving behind the familiar to make way for a new chapter...
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Jaeda DeWalt
Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate of food. I replied: no, that's just friendship; romance is always knowing exactly where that someone else's hands are. She smiled and said, there was a time I thought...
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Kamila Shamsie
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.
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Fernando Pessoa
More Quotes By Sherry Turkle
The idea that we can be exactly what the other desires is a powerful fantasy.
Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.
A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.
To understand desire, one needs language and flesh.
Discovering an inner history requires listening — and often not to the first story told.
