#advice

Through fetishizing the inequality embedded in the romance story, women have somehow become convinced that being in, or even vying for, a relationship is something we should want -- regardless of whether that relationship might hold equal power or doesn't serve us. ↗

— Samhita Mukhopadhyay

#dating

Arrogance is no substitute for experience,Fey. ↗

— C.L. Wilson

#experience

Next time you're about to rule out some guy because he's not your ideal, try to focus on the good things about him, because some guy is going to have to focus on the good things about you, even though he may have wanted someone more easygoing or taller. Every time you start to dissect some guy, note that he's willfully ignoring all of this in order to go out with you. ↗

— Lori Gottlieb

#love #dating

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them. ↗

— Confucius

#life #success #life

This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#desperate #faith #long-process #patience #thread

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children." -Diana ↗

— Kate Petrella

#family

When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone - there are many, many other things to be considered. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#family #love #marriage #family

Never give advice unless you have walked the walk, because anybody can talk the talk. ↗

— Valencia Mackie

#food-for-thought #insight #inspiration #food

The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way? ↗

— Richard Land

#bloody #cat #east #getting #grandmother

I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#affairs #brain #doubt #foreign #foreign affairs