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You aren’t afraid of love. You’re afraid of all the junk you’ve yoked to love. And you’ve convinced yourself that withholding one tiny word from the woman you think you love will shield you from that junk.


“Our minds are small, but our hearts are big. Just about every one of us has fucked up at one point or another. You’re in a pickle. You did things you didn’t hope to do. You have not always been your”
― Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who's Been There
― Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who's Been There

“Ask a friend or family member to do the same. I know several people who keep a gratitude stone in their pocket. Every time they put their hand in their pocket and touch the stone or remove it from their pocket, they think about things for which they are grateful.”
― Dating Essentials for Men: The Only Dating Guide You Will Ever Need
― Dating Essentials for Men: The Only Dating Guide You Will Ever Need

“How frightened those kittens were, and yet how they persisted. How when two strangers offered up their palms, they stepped in.”
― Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who's Been There
― Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who's Been There

“It’s quite easy to become Men Without Women. You love a woman deeply, and then she goes off somewhere. That’s all it takes.”
― Men Without Women
― Men Without Women
“As we’ll see later, humans may also possess psychological equivalents of the peacock’s tail and the carpenter ant’s propensity to blow itself up – in other words, psychological adaptations designed to attract mates and to facilitate the care of relatives other than offspring. In short, body and mind were fashioned by the same Darwinian forces.”
― The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve
― The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve
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