Relationships
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Relationships
I think that a fairly reliable mark of high intelligence is the capacity to recognize the signal within the noise of someone's 'wrong' take.
Pseudo-intelligence gleefully pours out the bathwater, raw intelligence finds & nurtures the baby.
Pseudo-intelligence gleefully pours out the bathwater, raw intelligence finds & nurtures the baby.
Heidi Priebe • Tweet
I think it’s beautiful how fidelity means both loyalty and level of detail. Because of course it should mean both those things. Of course.
Matt Kramer in NYC • Tweet
People often destroy their relationships over their whims. "He doesn't go rock climbing with me." "She doesn't do this specific thing when we're having sex." They start to obsess over this lack, mistaking a flight of fancy for a great and vacuous unfulfilled desire that if satisfied, will fix everything. What could have been summarily dismissed bec... See more
Autumn Christian • Tweet
“Once you grow up, you realize you don’t want to be crazy in love.
You want to be calm in love,
stable in love, patient in love,
understood in love, safe in love.
Your partner should give you peace of mind and reassurance, not constant little heart attacks and high anxiety.”
Wanting to be enough for someone else is self-abandonment.
Joe Hudson • Tweet
Embracing excellence means going beyond “the encouraged mediocrity of our society.” - Audre Lorde
“The aim of each thing which we do is to make our lives and the lives of our children richer and more possible.”
— Audre Lorde
"What most of us are waiting for is someone else to really think you’re okay with all your warts, just the way you are." - Charlotte Joko Beck