#er

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

#average #average man #carefully #cheerful #crumbs

A smile is the universal welcome. ↗

— Max Eastman

#universal #welcome

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything. ↗

— Max Eastman

#anything #believing #imagine #itself #liberal

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. ↗

— Max Eastman

#chief #holds #laughter #society #speech

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. ↗

— Max Eastman

#cherish #consciousness #defining #function

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#happens #just #never #opinion #style

in all the years i had blundered along in search of my own footing, she had never given me an inkling of this wish. unburdened by the demands of history or anyone else's dreams, i had wandered toward and finally reached a world far outside the plains i loved and loathed. my mother had neither begrudged me this journey nor expected it, certain that i had to make my own way. but she packed my toolbox with her great wit and forbearance before i went, and she stashed there, for long safekeeping, her desire. ↗

— Gail Caldwell

#dreams

I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him. ↗

— Sheena Easton

#consider #days #dump #good #good mother

We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life. ↗

— John Eaton

#contemporary #contemporary life #energy #life #need

Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my life. ↗

— Sheena Easton

#early #even #i #life #made