#om

So, for her, I'll try. I'll trust. I'll ... open myself. I'll ... be this guy I've never been before and don't even known how to be—this goofy "in love" guy, this guy who takes care of his woman, this guy who gives more than he takes. ↗

— Toni Blake

#men #romance #love

a wise woman puts a grain of sugar in everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#wisdom #men

For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#humanity #machines #monkeys #reflection #thought

Real haiku is the soul of poetry. Anything that is not actually present in one's heart is not haiku. The moon glows, flowers bloom, insects cry, water flows. There is no place we cannot find flowers or think of the moon. This is the essence of haiku. Go beyond the restrictions of your era, forget about purpose or meaning, separate yourself from historical limitations—there you will find the essence of true art, religion, and science. ↗

— Santoka Taneda

#creating #haiku #japanese #poetry #zen

Men like women who write, even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#men

Majority of women like to fantasize and men like to romanticize. I saw a painful mountain in her eyes. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#romance #woman #men

The sexiest thing about men is how they are with kids... If they are great with kids they are real men ... selfless, powerful, comforting ... Too bad so many men suck! ↗

— Pamela Anderson

#man #sexiest #men

Gosta da música, que é a mesma coisa que ouvir geometria ↗

— Afonso Cruz

#math #music #music

Behind almost every woman you ever heard of stands a man who let her down. ↗

— Naomi Bliven

#men

Nothing is more beautiful than freedom, and nothing more grotesque than its molestation. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#grotesque #molestation #beauty