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Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#compassion #inspiration #love #inspirational

The frog who lives in well.....don't have any idea how big is the ocean...(imagine that you are frog and ocean is friendship) ↗

— durgesh

#friendship

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#means #new #new philosophy #old #philosophy

When a person is faced with intense fear or sheer horror, they show their strength not by trying to be though, but by recovering afterwards ↗

— Maurice Mol

#inspirational #life #inspirational

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity. ↗

— C.L.R. James

#history #masses #men

Intercourse was now forbidden to everyone but married people; bundling disappeared. In its place young courting couples engaged in "petting"--which, interpreted broadly, meant that they were could do anything sexual short of intercourse. Women were now held responsible for controlling men's beastly sexuality--halting them from simply plunging ahead--at the same time that they were expected to be sexually innocent: an impossible position. ↗

— Leora Tanenbaum

#history #sexuality #men

It is supremely appealing to men to see a woman content with herself. We long to slip inside her and join her. ↗

— Sylivia Day

#lord-ware #men

Against delay. Against the way that seems easier. Against refusal of the burden that is laid on me. Against - well, if it must be said, against trust in the strength and truth of Men. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#frodo #j-r-r-tolkien #lord-of-the-rings #men #men

I hate parties. And a wedding is the biggest party of all. All the guests arrived and Orpheus is taking a shower. He's always taking a shower when the guests arrive so he doesn't have to greet them. Then I have to greet them. ↗

— Sarah Ruhl

#men #men-and-women #parties #relationships #showers

Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#men