Esther Perel Quotes
"For many, the weight of the past is not what was but rather what wasn’t.""Erotic aliveness requires active engagement and the courage to let go.""When we seek the gaze of another, it isn’t always our partner we are turning to—it’s the other in ourselves.""In desire, we experience a paradox: we seek the other in order to find ourselves.""To love is to have experienced the profound mutuality of others.""Desire is rooted in the unexpected and the unknown.""Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity.""Many of us live in an economy of scarcity, where we believe there is not enough to go around and that it is our duty to struggle.""Love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who you are.""The quality of our relationships determines the quality of our lives.""The quality of your relationships determines the quality of your life. ""When intimacy collapses into fusion, it is not a lack of closeness but too much closeness that impedes desire.""We seek the reassurance of love, but crave the excitement of desire.""Uncertainty keeps desire alive.""Erotic intelligence thrives on the unpredictable and the unknown.""Your first marriage is to your parents, and it’s the shortest of all marriages.""Life will bring you the same challenges, the same problems, the same issues until you learn your lesson.""Sometimes you need to slow down in order to be able to speed up.""Love is a verb. It's something you do.""The more we are able to embrace conflict, the more able we are to repair injury. "