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What more could you want? How about dominion over this 'beautiful place'? Beauty doesn't last. Friends and family decay. Power is the only thing that goes on forever." Jack answered with his gut. "No, love goes on forever. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#jack #love #neferet #power #truth

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#body-image #diet-industry #eating-disorders #self-esteem #weight

I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. ↗

— Zinedine Zidane

#every #every day #fight #hard #i

Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights. ↗

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

#cultural #declaration #human #human rights #must

It's fun when the ball is going in the hole and things are going right, but it's a miserable game when things aren't going well. ↗

— Fuzzy Zoeller

#fun #game #going #hole #miserable

I've always thought those guys are really funny. And I love Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and Mary. ↗

— David Zucker

#dumb #dumber #funny #guys #i

If you know someone that has given up hope, try giving that person some of your peace, joy, and faith! ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#beacon-of-light #faith #hope #spirituality #faith

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell." (America's Medieval Women, Harper's Magazine, August 1938) ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#double-standards #empowerment #inequality #prison #women

I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#condition #i #just #like #outsider

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. ↗

— John Updike

#adult #bore #consumes #each #half