#elation

Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world. ↗

— Ruth Hubbard

#cannot #categorize #evolve #our #place

I do believe that when you know better, you do better. You know what was wrong about the last relationship, and hopefully you will do better the next time. ↗

— Elisha Cuthbert

#believe #better #hopefully #i #i do

My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad. ↗

— Matt Damon

#contentious #dad #divorced #households #i

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#being #between #distinction #does #element

Public truth telling is a form of recovery, especially when combined with social action. Sharing traumatic experiences with others enables victims to reconstruct repressed memory, mourn loss, and master helplessness, which is trauma's essential insult. And, by facilitating reconnection to ordinary life, the public testimony helps survivors restore basic trust in a just world and overcome feelings of isolation. But the talking cure is predicated on the existence of a community willing to bear witness. 'Recovery can take place only within the context of relationships,' write Judith Herman. 'It cannot occur in isolation. ↗

— Lawrence N. Powell

#healing #holocaust #recovery #relationships #survival

schools for love do not exist. everyone assumes that we will know how to love instinctively. despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we still accept that the family is the primary school for love. those of us who do not learn how to love among family are expected to experience love in romantic relationships. however this love often eludes us. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#relationships #experience

I like the variety. But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film. Quiet film, no action, just people in relationships. That's what I like the most. ↗

— Jerry Goldsmith

#basically #choice #film #films #i

Call it holistic or holographic thinking, it's been quite effective imagining the world's problems are all right in front of you on a smaller scale with your band. You deal with those relationships, and that's where real major change begins. ↗

— Stone Gossard

#been #begins #call #change #deal

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#author #between #i #i write #new

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#mature #person #relationships