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• “love is a skill to be learnt, rather than just an emotion to be felt. It”

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• “Hold your beliefs lightly.’ Certainty is not necessarily a friend of sanity, although it is often mistaken for it.”

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• “We may believe we are seeking happiness in love, but what we are really after is familiarity.”

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• “Two people should see a relationship as a constant opportunity to improve and be improved. When lovers teach each other uncomfortable truths, they are not giving up on love. They are trying to do something very true to love: which is to make their partners more loveable.”

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• “In other words, whatever we choose will be a bit wrong, so we shouldn’t agonise too much about any one choice we make.”

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• “But simplicity is really an achievement – it follows from hard-won clarity about what matters.”

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• “If we cannot always be entirely sane in our relationships, the kindest thing we can do for those who care about us is to hand over some maps that try to chart and guide others through the more disturbed regions of our internal world.”

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• “The real skill is not always to strive to make better choices; it’s to know how to make our peace with our necessarily bad choices. We”

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• “One of the greatest privileges of being on one's own is the flattering illusion that one is, in truth, quite an easy person to live with.”

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• “We need to imagine the turmoil, disappointment, worry and sheer confusion in people who may outwardly appear merely aggressive.”

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• “The central solution to all this trouble is to normalise a new and more accurate picture of emotional functioning: to make it clear just how healthy and mature it is to be fragile and in repeated need of reassurance – and at the same time, how difficult it is to reveal one’s vulnerable dependence.”

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• “ما معتقد می‌شویم که عاشق واقعی باید به‌راحتی از افکار ما مطلع باشد و لازم نیست افکار خود را با اون به اشتراک بگذاریم. در یک لحظه خاص، شریک زندگی ما بخشی از افکارمان را خوانده و این واقعیت باعث می‌شود به این نتیجه مخرب برسیم که پس او باید همیشه چنین باشد و کل ذهن مارا بخواند. به‌این‌ترتیب اکراه ما از توضیح به شکل قابل‌ملاحظه بیشتر می‌شود.”

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• “Being told we simply have to love someone for all that they are, or else think of ourselves as bad people, is asking for the impossible. How could someone never want to change any part of us if they know us properly? Do”

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• “We are surrounded by stories that conspire to make success seem easier than it is, and therefore that unwittingly destroy the confidence we can muster in the face of our obstacles.”

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• “A meaningful life is close to, but at points importantly different from, a happy life.”

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• “Excessive self-hatred is a great enemy of relationships, but so too is excessive self-love.”

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• “They have a job that sounds unimpressive, but their interests are very broad and they might be the ideal person to go round an antiques market with.”

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• “Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it….”

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• “On a grand scale, this explains why grandparents typically have a calmer approach to bringing up children than parents do. The grandparents have a more accurate grasp of how normal – and therefore less alarming – many problems are. Their calm is based on two key bits of knowledge. They know that whatever is done, one’s children will turn out very far from perfect – and therefore the intensely agitating worry that one might be making a mistake is usually a bit misplaced. But they also grasp that even when things go a bit wrong, children will generally cope well enough. Their sense of danger and their sense of hope have both been made more accurate by experience. History encourages the less panicky sides of ourselves.”

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• “Anger is, in the Stoic analysis, caused by the violent collision of hope and reality. We”

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• “The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well.”

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• “همه ما عشق می‌خواهیم، اما وقتی عشق آغاز می‌شود، ممکن است به‌شدت نسبت به آن احساس خطر کنیم.”

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• “the time is ripe to step out from the Twittersphere and engage with people rather than their profiles. It seems ridiculous that so many of us are happy to engage in virtual conversations with strangers, yet remain silent in a group of real people. What”

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• “To suggest that someone requires a hug is to say something potentially, but only potentially, demeaning. It’s suggesting that they are, at least for the moment, rather like a child. They have the same kinds of emotional needs that we come to think of as essentially childlike. To need a hug is to admit that one is incapable of coping on one’s own, that one requires protection, guidance, the help of someone wiser and more capable, that one needs to have one’s troubles and anxieties reinterpreted by a more mature mind. It is to say, in shorthand, ‘I am at the moment like a child and I need someone else to be, for a while, like a parent.’ Yet even if we don’t usually like to admit it, there are in fact many times when we should be able to revert to a childlike position. There are moments of adult life when one seems petulant, scared, shy and sure that everything suddenly feels totally unfair. One’s ability to look after oneself is terribly depleted. At such times, to get ourselves back together, we need someone else to take the burden from us. We require the equivalent of what the parent does for the child. We are in need of someone to pat us on the head, to put us to bed early, tuck us in and hold us tight.”

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• “ما معمولاً عاشق را متهم می‌کنیم که نمی‌توانند ابعاد ناخوشایند و تاریک درون ما را ببیند، بنابراین عشق و علاقه آنها مشکوک به نظر می‌رسد. ما همه سعی خود را می‌کنیم تا خود واقعی‌مان را آشکار نکنیم درنتیجه در عشق هنوز احساس تنهایی می‌کنیم زیرا قسمت بزرگی از وجودمان ناشناخته مانده.”

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