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Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.

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It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
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Act Ego Learning Past
When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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Bond Commitment Couple Maintain Pain Relationship Response
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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Act Death Life Violence
Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
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Death Life Moments Reality Time
Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
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Attention Bond Person Relationship Rescognize Rescouce Romantic
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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Commitment Fall Men Problem
Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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Care Combination Commitment Knowledge Love Respect Responsiblity Trust
Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe – not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.
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Complex Demand Integrity Justice Moral Perspective Requirement Right Universe Weight Wrong
Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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Change Hope Ideas Inspirational People
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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Beyond Imagination Possible Reality Vision
What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Deep Imagination Inspirational
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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Book Country Love Writing
I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
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Believe Commitment Each Other Endurance Health Impossible Individual Relationship Sustain
Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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Cancer Feminism Struggle Women

Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.

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