"Sometimes it has to do with other longings……" — Esther Perel
"Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the one you are with; you are not liking the person you have become."
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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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Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery.
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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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More Elsewhere Quotes
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In fact, most people are being squeezed in their little cubicle, and their creativity is forced out elsewhere, because the…
— Scott Adams
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Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
— Theodor Adorno
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Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for…
— William Blake
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I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was…
— Elayne Boosler
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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
— Andre Breton
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I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed…
— Piers Anthony
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Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to…
— Stephen Levine
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The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on…
— Unknown Author
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To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their…
— Charles Darwin
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In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.
— Mark Twain
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The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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