Success, to me, is helping one person or many people counter the isolation and pseudoconnectivity of our lives … - Esther Perel

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After a few days [in Iceland] I tried to take a photograph. But with my attempt to distinguish the first shot, the place disappeared on me. . . . I hadn't been in Iceland long enough to simply be there.

Esther Perel

Success, to me, is helping one person or many people counter the isolation and pseudoconnectivity of our lives by boosting their ability to connect to themselves and to others.

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If you start to feel that you have given up too many parts of yourself to be with your partner, then one day you will end up looking for another person in order to reconnect with those lost parts.

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