#kin

And if all womankind banded together and took the male path, the world would turn into one huge brothel. ↗

— M. Ageyev

#female-versus-male #feminity #masculinity #men-versus-women #prostitution

For all our penny-wisdom,’” he said, “‘for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts. ↗

— Joshua Ferris

#men

Life is tough, get a helmet. ↗

— Sasha Cohen

#working-hard #inspirational

Your beliefs have the power to unlock your inner genius or keep you from fully achieving your greatest potential. ↗

— Deborah Day

#motivational-inspirational #positive-thinking #inspirational

I'd be (...) lying there on my back with my clothes on and looking up at the ceiling and watching the cigarette smoke flow up slow and splash against the ceiling like the upside-down slow-motion moving picture of the ghost of a waterfall or like the pale uncertain spirit rising up out of your mouth on the last exhalation, the way the Egyptians figured it, to leave the horizontal tenement of clay in its ill-fitting pants and vest. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#men

Why do you look among the bad for those who are good? ↗

— Moffat Machingura

#looking #men-seeking-women #seeking #women-seeking-men #men

An idea weighs nothing, except on the mind. ↗

— A.T. Baron

#imagination #inspirational #thought-provoking #imagination

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life. ↗

— Thomas Haden Church

#been #defined #failure #his #hopeful

Again, I shall be told that the law presumes the husband to be kind, affectionate, and ready to provide for and protect his wife. But what right, I ask, has the law to presume at all on the subject? ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#again #ask #be kind #his #husband

Kindness is a currency that can cover a multitude of interpersonal debts. ↗

— George Alexiou

#giving #happiness #humility #inspirational #integrity