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“People and families and cultures and religions and government organizations and educational sources and forms of entertainment have all been indoctrinating you with the false idea that marriage is the most important relationship you will have. And that the romantic pair bond is the only relationship in which your needs can be met.”

“If we see a romantic partnership as the only relationship that promises to meet our needs, the only one that will make us happy, the only one in which we can feel secure and establish a sense of guarantee, we will fail to recognize and we will devalue all of the other forms of relationships around us; as well as the plentitude of resources that each one offers us.”

“If we see a romantic partnership as the only relationship that promises to meet our needs, we will put all the pressure on that other person to be the one to meet all of our needs, which is impossible. No one person can meet all of our needs. So, it is a set up for disappointment and for pain.”

“A romantic partner is not all there is. It is not your only hope of getting the needs that you have reliably met. It is not your only hope of happiness. A great many needs that you have, which you are convinced can only come in the form of a romantic partner, are actually not dependent on a romantic partner.”

“Being a Songwriter isn't hard as you think, like If you want to pursue on your dreams and no matter how difficult it is.”

“Each of us is someone's forbidden sin. It would just be enough to meet up.”

“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”

“In life, the greatest treasure is having someone by your side who takes care of you.”

“I'm fascinated by all that is risky, crazy and not ordinary. Life is not infinite, I love to live every opportunity.”

“Just like water and air, connection with others is a basic human need.”

“The power of love, in any form, unites the world.”

“Every emotion is unique, just as the sound of the consolle when it becomes a woman is fascinating.”

“Adapting does not mean resigning, but knowing how to act of intellect.”

“He told of journeys, of where sun and moon go while we stand in dark,
of an earth-journey he dreamed he would take some day
deeper than roots ...
He told of the dreams of man, wars, passions, griefs,
and I, a tree, understood words – ah, it seemed my thick bark would split like a sapling's that grew too fast in the spring when a late frost wounds it.”

“I love them for finding what I can't find, and for loving me for the line I wrote, and for forgetting it so that a thousand times, till death
finds them, they may discover it again, in other lines in other happenings. And for wanting to know it, for assuming there is such a secret, yes, for that most of all.”

“He felt a killing hate for the stupid, ordinary, disapproving people who kept him from doing what he wanted to do.”

“How prideful sounds the phrase: "It is not nature that created a human, but he himself!””

“The purpose of life is to live meaningfully, productively, and emotionally–saturate. In other words, to live fully.”

“The main source of well-being – is a conscious and persistent wish to live fully.”