John Gray Short Quotes

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A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results.

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To grow in our ability to love ourselves we need to receive love as well.

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Get the love you deserve and gave your partner the love and support he deserves.

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We cannot be rid of illusions. Illusion is our natural condition. Why not accept it?

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When a man loves a woman, periodically he needs to pull away before he can get closer.

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In the life of the academic mind, the owl of Minerva seldom flies as early as the dusk.

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That love motivates you to cooperate, respect, appreciate, cherish, and admire that person.

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A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships.

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The result of toppling tyranny in divided countries is usually civil war and ethnic cleansing.

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Because she is afraid of not being supported, she unknowingly pushes away the support she needs.

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Cities are no more artificial than the hives of bees. The Internet is as natural as a spider's web.

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If you want to understand the beliefs that are shaping global politics, read the Book of Revelation.

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When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.

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The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

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When a man can listen to a woman's feelings without getting angry and frustrated, he gives her a wonderful gift.

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Caring about your self as it will be in the future is no more reasonable than caring about the self you are now.

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To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.

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Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed.... Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished.

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In evolutionary prehistory, consciousness emerged as a side effect of language. Today it is a by-product of the media.

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The mass of mankind is ruled not by its intermittent moral sensations, still less by self-interest, but by the needs of the moment.

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The evil of totalitarianism is not only that it fails to protect specific liberties but that it extinguishes the very possibility of freedom.

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A 'postmodern' organisation serving 'premodern' values, Al Qaeda has planted a question mark over the very idea of what it means to be modern.

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A lover who promises eternal fidelity is more likely to be believed if he believes his promise himself; he is no more likely to keep the promise.

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We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways — the ways we react and behave when we love someone.

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If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow.

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The belief that there is some hidden cabal directing the course of events is a type of anthropomorphism – a way of finding agency in the entropy of history.

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Nietzsche was an inveterately religious thinker, whose incessant attacks on Christian beliefs and values attest to the fact that he could never shake them off.

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Just as a man is fulfilled through working out the intricate details of solving a problem, a woman is fulfilled through talking about the details of her problems.

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For the ancients, unending labour was the mark of a slave. The labours of Sisyphus are a punishment. In working for progress we submit to a labour no less servile.

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Near-ubiquitous technological monitoring is a consequence of the decline of cohesive societies that has occurred alongside the rising demand for individual freedom.

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