Abandoned Quote by Esther Perel Download Open image “It’s hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy.” — Esther Perel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abandoned Abandoned Sense Attracted Attracted Abandoned Autonomy Feel Attracted Feels Freedom Hard Feel
It's strange how a person can have a distinct distaste for herself, but still she clutches on to life. — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
And she finds it difficult to believe—that a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what other people… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A person doesn't ask permission to fall in love; not even of themselves. — Ann Rinaldi Copy Share Image
It’s hard to accept yourself as someone you don’t desire / As someone you don’t want to be. — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
I think if a woman is very happy with herself and at ease with her choices, it goes a long way toward making other… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
There's a level of love that really dissolves a lot of egotism and self-absorption. — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
I couldn't possibly have played someone with feelings towards a woman unless I had those feelings myself. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little. — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“For [erotically intelligent couples], love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life:… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
For some people, a one-night stand doesn't make any difference in a seven-year love affair. I don't believe the degree of betrayal is always… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
I want to engage people in an honest, enlightened, and provocative conversation about the nature of erotic desire and the intricacies of intimacy and… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“The quality of your life ultimately depends on the quality of your relationships . . . which are basically a reflection of your sense… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
If you start to feel that you have given up too many parts of yourself to be with your partner, then one day you… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
On some level we trade passion for security, that's trading one illusion for another. It's a matter of degree. We can't live in constant… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“When the impulse to share becomes obligatory, when personal boundaries are no longer respected, when only the shared space of togetherness is acknowledged and… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“I do believe that the emphasis on egalitarian and respectful sex—purged of any expressions of power, aggression, and transgression—is antithetical to erotic desire for… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“If intimacy grows through repetition and familiarity, eroticism is numbed by repetition. It thrives on the mysterious, the novel, and the unexpected. Love is… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“I'm surprised when I walk right into yet another abandoned hunters' camp. Tattered plastic sheeting still hangs askew here and there. Blackened aerosol cans… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
When good media takes a bounded form, and comes once in a period of time, it begs to be consumed as a whole -… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
We should be recklessly abandoned to Jesus, and just turn it over to Him. Through the support I think the sacrifices will be made… — Stacie Orrico Copy Share Image
In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished a word that for them has no sense but abandoned; and… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did notthe value of security won,… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
Barack Obama became president, and he abandoned Iraq. He left, and when he left Al Qaida was done for. ISIS was created because of… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Through it all, this wild life on and off the road , through Jordanian deserts , Spanish islands, German prisons, Caribbean tax scams, halls… — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I just feel abandoned. And I feel, I don't feel represented by the Republican Party. I have always had to defend the social side… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
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