"It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them."
-Anthony Storr
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"The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.“
-Anthony Storr
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"I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you."
-Anthony Storr
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"If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears."
-Anthony Storr
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"If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears."
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
-Marilyn Monroe
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost
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"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."
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"Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce."
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"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength."
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