#open

That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#love

A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect. ↗

— Jonathan Lockwood Huie

#gift #love #openness #wonderful #love

True love doesn't spoil. ↗

— Toba Beta

#true-love #love

And do I still have that look?" he asked. "Yes just there," she kissed his eye. "The desire to love me is still there. If you look closely you can see mine for you, my tears never washed it away. ↗

— Racquel McDonnell

#love #openness #romance #love

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#doors #feel #feels #like #meant

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#afterwards #before #eyes #half #keep

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#alliance #entered #into #man #marriage

It was Wang Lung's marriage day. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#opening-lines #marriage

What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now. You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank. Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. I’ve even heard the term “mangina.” Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s not royally fucked up. ↗

— Jessica Valenti

#eye-opening #feminism #gender-inequality #insults #men

Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still. ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#open-mind #wisdom #men