"Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs……" — Esther Perel
"Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery."
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Esther Perel
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26 Quotes by Esther Perel
Esther Perel has 26 quotes on this site.
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In my community there were two groups of people, There were the ones who did not die and the ones…
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Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life:…
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The very ingredients that nurture love - mutuality, reciprocity, protection, worry, responsibility for the other - are sometimes the very…
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What is the relationship between love and desire? How do they relate, and how do they conflict? ... Therein lies…
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Most of us will get turned on at night by the very same things that we will demonstrate against during…
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There is no neediness in desire ... there is no caretaking in desire. Caretaking is mightily loving, [but] it's a…
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Everyone should cultivate a secret garden.
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Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and…
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Our partner's sexuality does not belong to us. It isn't just for and about us, and we should not assume…
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We are afraid that our adult sexuality will somehow damage our kids, that it’s inappropriate or dangerous. But whom are…
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Eroticism thrives in the space between the self and the other.
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Trouble looms when monogamy is no longer a free expression of loyalty but a form of enforced compliance.
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More Desire Quotes
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be…
— Hannah Arendt
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over…
— Aristotle
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
— Aristotle
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
— Aristotle
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
— Aristotle
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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
— Richard Bach
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
— Neil Armstrong
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I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated…
— Chinua Achebe
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
— Saint Augustine
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
— Saint Augustine
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