“I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to need and be with friends and the two things often need to be together... it's a painful conflict that will never be smoothly resolved.” WayNeedsKindTwoTogetherSecretSolitudeConflictPainfulObsessionTwo ThingsSecret Places Author:Morris Graves
“I wrote poetry in a secretive way, I think, a secret from myself, I mean. I wrote it because it gave me great pleasure to do so and because it relieved the ever-building pressure of the demanding world around me. It's always served me as a way of appraising, and controlling overwhelming experiences. But this need, and desire, was always in conflict with my need to "survive."” ThinkingWorldWayNeedsMeanDesirePleasureSecretBuildingConflictPressureOverwhelmingRelievedSecretive Author:Philip Schultz
“Because in traditional Hindu culture menstruation is associated with a variety of social taboos, prolonged menstrual bleeding produced conflicts within families. The whole idea of fertility regulation was still extremely new in this setting and many husbands and other family members were angry when they found out that women had decided on their own to use the method and had gone to the clinic in secret.” StillsIdeasWholeUseCultureFoundSocialSecretGoneHusbandConflictMembersDecidedMethodAngrySettingTraditionalSettingsVarietyRegulationTabooBleedingFamily MembersFertilityClinicMenstruationSocial Taboos Author:Ruth Simmons
“The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as soon as you ca not be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge! The time will soon past when you could be content to live concealed int he woods like timid deer!” MenPastRealizingSecretCitiesExistenceSeaConflictWoodsShipsEnjoymentOwnersRulersConcealedDeerRobbersSlopesUnchartedFruitfulness Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win.” IfsNeedsWinningMy OwnSecretMarriageSuccessfulRelationshipCoupleConflictPhilosopherPartnersUnhappyUnhappinessExpensesResentmentFulfillingMatrimonyLecturerCounselorUnhappy MarriageHappy RelationshipInspirational RelationshipPerfect RelationshipSuccessful Relationship Book:Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus Source: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
“We who claim to love peace and justice must always be careful that we do not use our righteousness to provoke the violent, and in this way bring about the conflict for which we, too, like other men, are hungering in secret, and with suppressed barbarity.” MenWayUseJusticeSecretIgnoranceConflictClaimsCarefulViolentRighteousnessBe CarefulProvokingPeace And JusticeBarbarity Author:Thomas Merton