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Red flags are moments of hesitation that determine our destination. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#destiny #follow-your-gut #gut-feelings #hesitation #inner-voice

A righteous wife is a respectful wife. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#marriage #piety #religious #respect #righteous

Love is a word, another kind of open. As the diamond comes into a knot of flame I am Black because I come from the earth's inside take my word for jewel in the open light. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#black-poet #essayist #feminist #ny-laureate #teacher

Love doesn't erase the past, but it makes the future different. ↗

— Gary Chapman

#love #relationships #inspirational

It's easy to make me laugh, you can make me laugh, anyone can make me laugh, but that certainly does not mean you can make me do anything. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#make-me-laugh #quotes-for-women #women #womens-inspirational #inspirational

Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss. We, on the other hand, have our own secret weapon against these incorporeal fiends. It is laughter. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#secret #secret-weapon #weapon #worry #inspirational

And now here was Arabella, making him feel worse. Maybe that was what she always did; maybe she always made him feel worse, and he'd never really noticed before. Maybe what seemed like the ordinary rough-and-tumble of marriage, combined with hard work and London, was something simpler: the fact that added to any equation, Arabella made it worse. ↗

— John Lanchester

#relationships #support #marriage

If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place. ↗

— Frank Robinson

#first #good #guys #out #place

The regrets about all she had let go flooded her. Where had all that enterprise gone? All that energy? Why had she never traveled? Or had more sex when she could? She had bleached and annihilated every waking moment of the last twenty years. Anything, rather than feel. ↗

— Rachel Joyce

#marriage #regret #relationships #marriage

While some of my closest friends were jocks, it seemed that they spoke a different language with each other. Joining in their conversation was fraught with risk. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#closest friends #conversation #different #different language #each