#hood

I'm single because I was born that way. ↗

— Mae West

#choice #dignity #empowerment #freedom #independence

I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#funny #humour #neighborhoods #funny

Great men have great discipline.” ― Habeeb Akande ↗

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#great #greatness #hero #leaders #leadership

O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#fairy-tales #life

Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#happiness #loser #sisterhood #life

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#loneliness #marriage #single #spinsterhood #marriage

You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island. ↗

— Jason Alexander

#better #budget #find #had #island

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#falsehood #may #only #outraged #silence

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#blessed be #brings #childhood #down #heaven

I didn't have a happy childhood. ↗

— Giorgio Armani

#happy #happy childhood #i