We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.
I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie...
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Veronica Roth
I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.
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Steve Maraboli
There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.
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Shannon L. Alder
The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core...
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Osho
When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.
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Shannon L. Alder
More Quotes By Edward Sapir
The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.
It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.
We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.
Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.
