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Keep those eyes of yours, mate, wide-fucking-open. Never know when it’s watching.
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Adam Scott Huerta (Motive Black (Motive Black Series, #1))
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We were not making love, we did not even kiss, but the inexplicable intimacy we shared left us wordlessly and hopelessly locked into each other's gaze.
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Jasmine Dubroff
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Ballet in the air...
Twin butterflies until, twice white
They Meet, they mate
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Matsuo Bashō (Japanese Haiku (Japanese Haiku Series I))
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We do not remember days, Shemei, we remember moments, and the richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Terri Herman-Poncé (In This Life)
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Cheating in relationship is a sign of self-regulation failure. When it happens ones, it is a mistake. When it happens twice, it is unfortunate. But when it happens thrice or more, it is a pattern indicating primitive, uncivilized inhuman behavior.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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Two married partners do not just live with each other, they live in each other, neurologically speaking.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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Some of us have deeper feelings for one over another. It can’t be helped. It’s chemistry. It’s inherent. You can’t make yourself love someone you don’t and you can’t make yourself stop loving someone you do.
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Kate McGahan (Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge: A Dog's Afterlife Story of Loss, Love and Renewal (Jack McAfghan Pet Loss Series Book 3))
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I could not bring myself to hang up the phone or even so much as move it from my ear. The chance that I could hear his voice once again was too great a prospect.
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Jasmine Dubroff
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He told me that soul mates come into our lives at very precise times to inspire and to awaken us to bigger and better ways of looking at the world and interacting with it. We’ve known each other before, he said, and we will know each other again.
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Kate McGahan (Jack McAfghan's - The Lizard from Rainbow Bridge: A True Tale of an Animal Spirit Angel (Jack McAfghan Pet Loss Series Book 2))
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Do not seek for the best partner, but seek for the person who makes you a better version of yourself.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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Where Destiny sets its path,
Fate shall follow...:
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Deborah Ann
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Try to respond to your partner instead of reacting.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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The road for hell for me is paved with everything I would do for you, and that list never fucking ends.
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J. Bree (Broken Bonds (The Bonds that Tie, #1))
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He took my hand in his. I gasped when our skin touched and looked into his eyes in a kind of shocked wonder, my eyes wide. His hand was smooth and warm, a few degrees warmer than it should be, and that heat sank into me, but it was not his heat that made me gasp. It felt like a storm resided within his skin and the moment our hands met, the storm and heat went raging through my veins, leaving my skin tingling and my heart fluttering while also making my blush deeper. It was like heat lightning, flashes of brilliance without sound that told of an impending storm. It awakened something within me, something I did not know existed, and took my breath away. I had never felt anything like it before.
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Jasmine Dubroff
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It’s the spark of love’s memory inside your heart that recognizes them and most of the time they recognize you too. That spark is the magnet that always brings us back to each other. Like glue, it binds us together with an invisible cord from lifetime to lifetime, soul mate to soul mate.
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Kate McGahan (Jack McAfghan's - The Lizard from Rainbow Bridge: A True Tale of an Animal Spirit Angel (Jack McAfghan Pet Loss Series Book 2))
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When you see her, suddenly it’s not the earth holding you here anymore. She does.” “Is this a Twilight reference?” “Eclipse, actually, and don’t look so judgy. I’m not going to justify my obsession with the series to you again.
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Lana Ferguson (The Fake Mate)
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Soul mates meet in a place where time stands still. You recall where you were when the call came in. The vivid colors of the day. The season. The way the sun was streaming in or how the rain fell upon the glass. That’s how you know it was your destiny. You can remember the smallest details of your meeting. And you thought it wouldn’t matter.
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Kate McGahan (Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge: A Dog's Afterlife Story of Loss, Love and Renewal (Jack McAfghan Pet Loss Series Book 3))
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Monogamy is not a choice, it is a responsibility of a genuine human.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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Compatibility doesn't determine the fate of a marriage, how you deal with the incompatibilities, does.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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How can it surprise any of you that loves could break the curse? You, whose very genetic makeup forces you to love so deeply that you can't even survive without your mate? It's no coincidence that the saying is 'love conquers all'. It's a tale as old as time.
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Quinn Loftis (Out of the Dark (The Grey Wolves, #4))
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How do I describe the feeling that envelopes my being when he is near? It is like a cocoon of warmth and peace, but beneath that there is a deep longing, a hunger that one kiss would not be able to satisfy, one kiss would only make the hunger greater. But oh, how I long for that kiss, a kiss that might never come.
Being close to him does things to me, makes me feel things I never knew existed, makes me want things I have never wanted before. I have never desired to know a man's body before I met Ariston. I wonder if he knows that I desire him in such a way, that I not only want to know his body, but that I want him to know mine. There is a part of me that would not care if he loves me or not if I could just have one beautiful, passionate night with him, while the rest of me knows that one night would never be enough.
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Jasmine Dubroff
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Some souls come together just for a little while to teach each other something. It can be confusing because you can think you love someone at first sight and you assume that they are a soul mate. You think it’s supposed to last forever. You share the same dreams because when your mind is asleep, your souls travel to the same place so that you can be together. You think of them and they call within moments, because they are thinking of you too. The truth is that some soul mates stay just long enough to teach you what you need to learn.
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Kate McGahan (Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge: A Dog's Afterlife Story of Loss, Love and Renewal (Jack McAfghan Pet Loss Series Book 3))
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I'd wondered how it was possible to magically find a soul mate in a random group of boys.
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Kiera Cass (The Crown (The Selection, #5))
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When two people fall in love, they not only give up their genuine authority over their own lives, but also, they become mutual authorities of the collective life that they build together.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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Marriage is not a competition. Marriage is completion of two souls.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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A healthy world is made of healthy nations. A healthy nation is made of healthy families. And a healthy family can only be raised on the foundation of a monogamous relationship.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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Either one is promiscuous or in a relationship - it cannot be both at the same time.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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the sadness it feels in attaining any happiness less than the infinite—all these constitute the mating call of God to the soul.
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Fulton J. Sheen (Three to Get Married (Catholic Insight Series))
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Beauty is an illusion, created by Mother Nature to drive the human species in the path of reproduction. In reality, beauty is irrelevant to human life, especially in a relationship. What you today perceive as beautiful and special, over time, becomes not so special. That’s how the human brain works. It is not beauty that keeps a relationship alive, it is attachment. Without attachment, a naked body is merely a lifeless sex toy.
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Abhijit Naskar (The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality (Humanism Series))
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When you dream you go inside yourself, even though it makes you feel like you are traveling many miles and light years to go to the dream worlds. This is the irony of all of it. Everything lives within the heart of the dreamer. Your heart can take you everywhere. It’s the world where we are still together. The heart is where you’ll find me and anyone else you have ever loved with all your heart and all your soul.
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Kate McGahan (Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge: A Dog's Afterlife Story of Loss, Love and Renewal (Jack McAfghan Pet Loss Series Book 3))
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In a fraction of a moment we fall in love, we break up, we live out a love story that lasts until the end of time. We are soulmates, we are adversaries, we are everything. We are nothing. We are at our fullest potential of every possibility. We are supposed to cross paths for one reason or another. Sometimes we don’t know the reason until it’s far behind us.
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Kate McGahan (Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge: A Dog's Afterlife Story of Loss, Love and Renewal (Jack McAfghan Pet Loss Series Book 3))
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A relationship is not just about sex – it is much more than that. Sex is only a tool in love, not love itself.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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True love is born out of the pyre of two committed souls.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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Polygamy is a luxury of the cave-people, and monogamy is an existential responsibility of the civilized society.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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Our mind has evolved in such a way that new wants keep appearing in it relentlessly. But do not confuse them with needs. Needs are necessity, but wants are luxury.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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If there’s anyone we are sure to learn something from, it’s the one who pushes our buttons.
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Kate McGahan (Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge: A Dog's Afterlife Story of Loss, Love and Renewal (Jack McAfghan Pet Loss Series Book 3))
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She couldn't detach from him, couldn't catch her breath, and didn't want to. Not ever again.
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Kristin Miller (The Werewolf Wears Prada (San Francisco Wolf Pack, #1))
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Men with lower self-esteem tend to select women who are less physically attractive and women with lower self-esteem tend to select mates who are lower income earners
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Jack Schafer (The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1))
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She made me her everything. She didn’t realize then that when you make someone your everything, when they are gone you have nothing left. I have since learned that our Master sends us soul mates who teach us to depend on them and then we come to believe we cannot live without them. Then He takes them away to prove to us that we can indeed live without them, but also to prove that we cannot live without Him.
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Kate McGahan (Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge: A Dog's Afterlife Story of Loss, Love and Renewal (Jack McAfghan Pet Loss Series Book 3))
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I write for me, just for the joy of it. But If someone else smiles as a result, even better.
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Sandra R. Neeley (I'm Not a Dragon's Mate! (Avaleigh's Boys #1))
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Civilized are not those who never make mistakes – civilized are those who learn from their mistakes instead of trying to justify them.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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The more we humanize the society, the more we will become humans.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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A healthy marriage acts as the vessel of wellbeing and stability for both partners as well as the children.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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What is the point of being humans, if our actions scream with more bestiality than humanity!
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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Our mistakes rewire our brain and open up new gateways of perception.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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Cheating is an innate evolutionarily programmed desire, especially in men, but it is not a desire that cannot be controlled.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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It brought his heart joy to be able to do so much for her and he welcomed the opportunity to be able to show her this side of him as a provider and life mate.
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Olivia Gaines (A Few More Nights (Nights Series #2))
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It can get a little complicated when you have the expectation that you’re supposed to live Happily Ever After with this person when they were designed to stay with you for just a little while. Our Master designs it this way so you make the most of the relationship when you have it. She thought all soul mates were meant to be forever, when some soul mates are just meant to be.
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Kate McGahan (Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge: A Dog's Afterlife Story of Loss, Love and Renewal (Jack McAfghan Pet Loss Series Book 3))
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I don't believe in soul mates, not exactly. I think it's ridiculous to think there's only one person out there for us. What if your "soul mate" lives in Zimbabwe? What if he dies young? I also think "two souls becoming one" is ridiculous. You need to hold onto yourself. But I do believe in souls being in sync, souls that mirror each other.
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Richelle Mead (Last Sacrifice (Vampire Academy, #6))
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He kissed her softly. "I think we both need time to get to know one another before we make love again. I don't want to rush things."
"But mating us so we're connected for all eternity isn't rushing things?
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Carrie Ann Ryan (Prowled Darkness (Dante's Circle, #7))
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Ah, I found you." Came a voice behind me. My heart skipped a beat as a smile spread across my face. How do I already know his voice?
'My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words of thy tongue’s uttering, yet I know the sound.' I remembered the line from Romeo and Juliet. I could not forget Ariston's voice if I tried. At the sound, all thoughts of the odd occurrence faded.
I turned around to see Ariston Crete walking towards me. I realized when I saw him that there was a part of my mind that had wondered if he was real, if I had not only imagined his beauty, but clearly I had not. Somehow, he is real, right down to his ancient eyes. It felt just as indescribable to look into his eyes as it had before.
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Jasmine Dubroff
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Beauty is irrelevant to human life, especially in a relationship. What you today perceive as beautiful and special, over time, becomes not so special. That’s how the human brain works. It is not beauty that keeps a relationship alive, it is attachment. Without attachment, a naked body is merely a lifeless sex toy.
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Abhijit Naskar (The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality (Humanism Series))
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The right loved one will fill up your life like the final puzzle piece that makes it all complete. You feel it when you meet them. Or sometimes if you aren’t mature enough or wise enough, it can take time to discover that they are the right one. Once your jigsaw puzzle is complete, the rest are often just extra pieces.
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Kate McGahan (Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge: A Dog's Afterlife Story of Loss, Love and Renewal (Jack McAfghan Pet Loss Series Book 3))
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Not everyone understands the love that takes place between two soul mates. Once it strikes, you are never the same. Then every song you hear about true love finally makes sense. All the famous love poems resonate in your heart when you read them. You come to recognize those who have also come to recognize the deepest, truest love …and they recognize you too. You cannot experience this level of relationship with someone who has not been into the depths of love and spirit. You cannot fault them. They are on their own path and if you do anything, pity them for not yet knowing what love is all about.
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Kate McGahan (Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge: A Dog's Afterlife Story of Loss, Love and Renewal (Jack McAfghan Pet Loss Series Book 3))
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Let me tell you a story. There was a student who asked his teacher, what is love? The teacher said go into the field and bring me the most beautiful flower. The student returned with no flower at hand and said, “I found the most beautiful flower in the field but I didn't pick it up for I might find a better one, but when I returned to the place, it was gone.”
We always look for the best in life. When we finally see it, we take it for granted and after some time start expecting a better one, not knowing that it's the best for us.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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Self-regulation is not simply a moral characteristic. It is biologically healthy for both your mind and the body.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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There is a difference between what you want, and what you need.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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She has always wanted you as a mate, Owen.
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Elizabeth Morgan (She-Wolf (Blood, #0.5))
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True love is 20 percent care and 80 percent understanding.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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My fingers are mated into a mirrored series of what manifests, to me, as the letter X.
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David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest)
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There is no destination in marriage. It is the journey that matters.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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Marriage is in fact, one of the healthiest social constructs of the civilized society.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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You can’t “make” someone your soul mate. You can try but it will always be very hard work. Human relationships are hard even when they are easy, so it’s important to be in one with a soul mate. She felt she could learn to love Shane; that she might grow to love him over time. She always felt she could make her mind up and then accomplish anything, but the heart and the mind have different agendas. If she was going to try to make this relationship work, it had to come from her heart, not from ‘making up her mind’. You don’t have to “try” to be anything when you are with your soul mate because they are looking for who you are, not for who you are trying to be.
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Kate McGahan (Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge: A Dog's Afterlife Story of Loss, Love and Renewal (Jack McAfghan Pet Loss Series Book 3))
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If you want to be drunk, become drunk with an idea. If you want pleasure, have pleasure from the pursuit of your passion. If you want to be indoctrinated, then be so by the natural law of humanism.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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Remember my friend, uncontrolled alcohol, uncontrolled casual sex and mindless indoctrination are not signs of progress, they are signs of drowning into the abyss of mental and physical degradation.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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A good marriage, where both partners are exclusively committed to each other, keeps them healthier both physiologically and psychologically, by directly influencing the nervous system and immune system.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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Mate after mate we find ourselves trying to adapt to who they want us to be till eventually we lose our true identity. We spend countless years learning each mate but never take the time to learn ourselves. In the end we know our mates better than we know ourselves. If and when the mate walks away we are stuck living with a stranger, ourselves. If u can't find comfort in urself how can anyone else find comfort in u?
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Al-Saadiq Banks (Block Party 3: Brick City Massacre (Block Party series))
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Being a 'potential mate' was something rather different and much more complicated. It was when two people had the potential to become like one person, knowing each other's moods and feelings in a way no one else could. Being aware of their presence in a crowded room was just one example. If they were sad or angry, their mate would sense it to a point of feeling the emotion themselves.
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A.Z. Green (Beasthood (The Hidden Blood Series, #1))
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Love is not the primeval surge of libidinal lust that a person receives when meeting a suitable partner for the first time. Love in the truest sense of the term is born much later in a relationship, when both sides get to the know the truest selves of each other.
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Abhijit Naskar (The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality (Humanism Series))
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Negative energy can be a positive motivating force devoid human emo-tion, isolation, and extinction.”
“Be careful of the company that you keep, for everyone who smiles in your face is not your friend.”
(Thought or Idea) ….. “That’s how the game is told, and that’s how the game is sold.”
“For every action there is a reaction, however for every action there is also completely separate action that negates the first action.”
“Life’s journey deals you friends in both high places ( + ), and low places ( - ), one can always mate the other.”
“Every ending in one’s Life Series, constitutes a beginning De novo, al-ways every time.”
“It’s not about your past, it’s about your future …… everyday.
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T'adaram Alasadro Maradas
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Rhage re-formed on the lawn of Darius’s former mansion and strode up to the front entrance. The second he came into the house, he heard a series of gasps, and glanced to the left. In the parlor, there were a number of civilians clustered in an awkward, standing group, like they didn’t feel comfortable sitting on all the fancy silk-covered furniture—and their eyes were popped large at the sight of him. Yeah, his reputation still preceded him. Geez, you’re a slut for a couple of centuries, and people just can’t let that shit go after you get properly mated.
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J.R. Ward (The Shadows (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #13))
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Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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Let’s start over shall we? Hello gorgeous. I’m Justin McKinley. I’m head baker at Le Chef Petite. I’d love to get to know you better. Can I seduce you with my vast knowledge of sweet and sensual desserts?”
Alicia couldn’t help it. She giggled. One of those girly, I’ve-been-flirting bubbly
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Lea Barrymire (Justin's Desserts (Fated Mates, Inc., #2))
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The masculine scents of tobacco, spice and a hint of grapefruit hit her nostrils and affected her like she's dropped into a Godiva factory. What was he wearing ? Reminded her of the bonding scent vampires threw off when they met their soul mates in her fave series, The Black Dagger Brotherhood.
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Jennifer Probst (Searching for Someday (Searching For, #1))
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When I’m gone, time won’t change. It will pass the way it always has. I’ve seen it happen. People always move on. You will find your mate. You will move on then I’ll be nothing but a memory, but I will never forget you. I will always love you for you have drawn emotions in me no other has in two thousand years. I will live with the memory of you in my heart because nothing can erase you from within me. You have forever changed me. You’ve taught me what it’s like to truly love.
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J.L. Sheppard (Heavenly Desire (Elemental Sisters, #3))
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I didn’t faint,” Crew growled, knowing he had. “Ok…” Beckett drawled, moving back a bit. “Were you testing the floor for hardness with your face?
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Lisa Ladew (One True Mate Series Bundle, #1-4)
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We never left you, mate.’ ‘No, mate.’ Wildgoose said. ‘We just can’t run as fast as you!
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Phillip Richards (Eden (The Union Series, #3))
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I reckon he’s jealous, because he can see you have more talent than he’s got in his little finger.
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Cathy Hopkins (Mates, Dates and Sole Survivors (The Mates, Dates Series Book 5))
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Polygamy is about sex, whereas monogamy is about love.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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A human is the one, who would give up a thousand Cleopatras to be with the person he or she loves.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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What is natural, needs to be looked upon, scrutinized and reshaped by each generation of the world, to make it compatible with the path of progress of a civilized society.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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A philanderer cannot be a parent - a parent cannot be a philanderer.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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Do not let the evil become our masters, but make the good reign upon the world.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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If you want to be drunk, become drunk with an idea.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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Sex is only a tool in love, not love itself.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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Philanderers and swingers can see nothing beyond the needs of their genitals. Sexual craving is a part of our biology, but it is not who we are.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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Progress begins when you liberate your mind from the shackles of your ingrained tendencies of authoritarianism – the tendencies of greed – the tendencies of hatred, rage and lust.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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Your mate is supposed to compromise with you if he truly loves you.
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Natavia (Beasts 2: A Mate's War (The Beasts Series Book 5))
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That was the one thing he knew for certain above all else, this female was his. He knew it the moment he saw her tumble into his territory.
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Katie Cody (Wild for Him: (Born to be Wild #1))
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I have lost my mate, my mind, my existence.." Blood Wrath book 3 of The draven Witch Series
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Zoey Sweete (Blood Wrath (The Draven Witch, #3))
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It might be more accurate to think of love as a feeling we have for others who match up with what society teaches us to want in a mate.
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John J. Macionis (Society: The Basics (MySocLab Series))
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We biologists often use the phrase “Mother Nature” to refer to the entire system of Nature that we see around us, but it is not really an entity, and it does not have any real concern for any of its living creatures – it lives on with or without us; it is in our human psychology to impose a human-like identity upon any grand system that we encounter around us – it gives us a sense of closeness to that system and makes us feel an essential part of it. When I say, Mother Nature designed us, or programmed us, I am simply referring to the process of natural selection.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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Promoting promiscuity in this evolved and civilized society is actually like signing the Declaration, that says:
“I hereby renounce my membership of humankind, since I am neither human nor kind. I declare that I no longer belong to the modern human species, i.e. the Homo sapiens. From now on I shall be counted among the swingers of the animal kingdom, such as the bonobo or montane vole. I am simply an arrogant philandering savage.
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Abhijit Naskar (Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy (Humanism Series))
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He likes me? He picks on me because he likes me? Jiyoung was confused. She went over the series of incidents that she had suffered because of him, and still couldn’t make sense of what the teacher was saying. If you like someone, you’re friendlier and nicer to them. To friends, to family, to your pet dogs and cats. Even at the age of eight, this was common sense to Jiyoung. The desk-mate’s pranks made school life so difficult for her. What he’d put her through was awful enough, and now the teacher was making her out to be a bad child who misunderstood her friend.
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Cho Nam-Joo (Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982)
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Howie brought her hand to his lips. “You stepped in front of me,” he said in wonder. “I didn’t need you to. I can handle Prudence Morgan.”
“But you didn’t.” She tapped his chest. “You stayed quiet for the longest time before responding.”
“Quiet is how I handle difficult people….”
“You don’t handle me that way.” Her voice came out sounding breathless.
Howie slipped his arms around her. “If it were up to me, this is how I’d handle you.”
Butterflies danced in her stomach. Not a fearful battering of wings, but a sparkling mating flight, making her heart soar into her throat. “Why isn’t it up to you?
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Debra Holland (Mail-Order Brides of the West: Bertha: A Montana Sky Series Novel (Mail-Order Brides of the West Series Book 5))
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Have you ever done something so far out of your normal behavior that it was freeing?” She wouldn’t plead, but she wasn’t above a little coercion. She whispered into his ear and gave the lobe a quick nibble. “I mean. We’re stuck here together. I like you a lot and have talked to you more than anyone else in a long time. If this was a date I’d be thinking of letting you into my apartment for a nightcap or whatever it is people call it now. Want to throw morals and all that out the window for a little bit?
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Lea Barrymire
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In the presence of our families and friends, I take you, Celestia, to be my mate, my love, my consort, and my wife. Together, we can accomplish more than I could ever do alone. I will never let the pressures of the present and uncertainty of the future stop me from loving you, because you are my partner in mayhem, my enabler in trouble, and my companion in a life full of unexpected, strange adventures. I will encourage you to try new things and revisit the old to refresh your memories. I promise to celebrate our love daily, snuggle with you often, and make you laugh out loud. I vow to lend you my strength only when you need it, and to cheer you on from the sideline and support you when you don’t. I pledge to nurture and be respectful of your talents and quirks even when they involve dead animals.” He glanced at a raven in the back of the room, which I’d assumed was one of Odin’s. “You have a huge, kind, and giving heart, and I’m the lucky man you’ve given it to for safekeeping. I promise to never give you a reason to doubt my love for you, because this is just the beginning of our journey together. We have forever, and I will love you always.
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Ednah Walters (Goddess: A Runes Book (Runes Series 7))
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The cosmic perspective comes from the frontiers of science, yet it is not solely the provenance of the scientist. It belongs to everyone. The cosmic perspective is humble. The cosmic perspective is spiritual—even redemptive—but not religious. The cosmic perspective enables us to grasp, in the same thought, the large and the small. The cosmic perspective opens our minds to extraordinary ideas but does not leave them so open that our brains spill out, making us susceptible to believing anything we’re told. The cosmic perspective opens our eyes to the universe, not as a benevolent cradle designed to nurture life but as a cold, lonely, hazardous place, forcing us to reassess the value of all humans to one another. The cosmic perspective shows Earth to be a mote. But it’s a precious mote and, for the moment, it’s the only home we have. The cosmic perspective finds beauty in the images of planets, moons, stars, and nebulae, but also celebrates the laws of physics that shape them. The cosmic perspective enables us to see beyond our circumstances, allowing us to transcend the primal search for food, shelter, and a mate. The cosmic perspective reminds us that in space, where there is no air, a flag will not wave—an indication that perhaps flag-waving and space exploration do not mix. The cosmic perspective not only embraces our genetic kinship with all life on Earth but also values our chemical kinship with any yet-to-be discovered life in the universe, as well as our atomic kinship with the universe itself.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson (Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Series))
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A major source of conflict is that men sometimes infer sexual interest on the part of a woman when it does not exist. A series of experiments has documented this phenomenon (Abbey, 1982; Lindgren, George, & Shoda, 2007). In one study, 98 male and 102 female college students viewed a 10-minute videotape of a conversation in which a female student visits a male professor’s office to ask for more time to complete a term paper. The actors in the film were a female drama student and a professor in the theater department. Neither the student nor the professor acted flirtatious or overtly sexual, although both were instructed to behave in a friendly manner. People who witnessed the tape then rated the likely intentions of the woman using a seven-point scale. Women watching the interaction were more likely to say that she was trying to be friendly, with an average rating of 6.45, and not sexy (2.00) or seductive (1.89). Men, also perceiving friendliness (6.09), were significantly more likely than women to infer seductive (3.38) and sexual intentions (3.84). A speed-dating laboratory procedure had men rate women’s sexual interest in them a er a brief interaction and compared those ratings to women’s self-reported sexual interest in each of the men (Perilloux et al., 2012). Again, men exhibited a sexual misperception bias, perceiving women as significantly more interested in them than women actually were. Men high in self-perceived attractiveness and female-evaluated mate value are especially vulnerable to the sexual over-perception bias (Kohl & Robertson, 2014; Perilloux et al., 2012). And men who pursue a short-term mating strategy are also more prone to the sexual over-perception bias (Perilloux et al., 2012), likely because this bias facilitates more frequent attempts to initiate sexual overtures.
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David M. Buss (Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind)