Anthony Storr

(345 votes)   A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Anthony Storr
1920-, British Psychiatrist

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(50 votes)   With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.

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(25 votes)   It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

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(23 votes)   The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

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(31 votes)   Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

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