#men

Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck's terrible.) ↗

— Groucho Marx

#women #luck

…does not need Facebook, Twitter and Stumble Upon. She is a whole social media network all by herself. ↗

— Pandora Poikilos

#social-commentary #twitter

HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#enlightenment

Is magic not enough to live for?" Widget asks. "Magic," the man in the grey suit repeats, turning the word into a laugh. "This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it. Look around you," he says, waving a hand at the surrounding tables. "Not a one of them even has an inkling of the things that are possible in this world, and what's worse is that none of them would listen if you attempted to enlighten them. They want to believe that magic is nothing but clever deception, because to think it real would keep them up at night, afraid of their own existence." "But some people can be enlightened," Widget says. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#mundane #possibility-enlighten #the-night-circus #enlightenment

There is strong shadow where there is much light. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#enlightenment #shadow #enlightenment

I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#wisdom #enlightenment

All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#enlightenment

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#jefferson #opression #tyranny #enlightenment

It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#rebellion #rebellion

I have a secret secret admirer. Not only is her identity a secret—but so is the fact that she admires me.
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— Jarod Kintz

#admiration #fact #identity #secret-admirer #women