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Thomas Merton says to love another as a person we must begin by…

“To love another as a person we must begin by granting him his own autonomy and identity as a person. We have to love him for what he is in himself, and not for what he is to us. We … Continue reading

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Tyler Knott Gregson says we all just wish to be…

“How unique to this human experience that we all just wish to be the most important thing on Earth to someone else.” – Tyler Knott Gregson

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Anton Chekhov says perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love…

“Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.” – Anton Chekhov

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Charlotte Eriksson says you love and lose and bleed best you can…

“You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the … Continue reading

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Alain de Botton says the more closely we analyze what we consider “sexy”…

“The more closely we analyze what we consider ‘sexy,’ the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of … Continue reading

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Peter Redgrove says the erotic state…

“The erotic state – again, a mixture of concentration and spontaneity – is a hypnoidal state, probably the most powerful kind that we are capable of experiencing, and it is in this condition that unexpected regions of the self are … Continue reading

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Kaui Hart Hemmings says that’s how you know you love someone, I guess…

“That’s how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can’t experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.” – Kaui Hart Hemmings

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