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No one ever likes the right person.

Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “The Rules of Attraction”, p.261, Vintage

The person who sweeps the floor should choose the broom.

Howard Behar, Janet Goldstein (2007). “It's Not About the Coffee: Lessons on Putting People First from a Life at Starbucks”, p.63, Penguin

We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.

Harriet Lerner (2014). “The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships”, p.17, Harper Collins

In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.

Theodor Reik (2002). “Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions”, p.194, Transaction Publishers

To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.

Penelope Fitzgerald (1998). “The Gate of Angels”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.

"Bit and Peace: Lauren Groff's Arcadia". Interview with Clare Stein, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 8, 2012.