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I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest. ↗

— Cesar Romero

#another #assumed #dance #dancing #even

Stop giving your life away to other people. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #life #self-empowerment #inspirational

Men command the world that they know . Everything that men know they make their own. Everything that they learn, they claim for themselves. They are like the alchemists who took for the laws that govern the world, and then want to own them and keep them secret. Everything they discover,they hug to themselves: they shape knowledge into their own selfish image. What is left to us women but the realms of the unknown? ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#men #occult-and-women #men

But you must be awash in a sea of compliments, my lady. Every gentleman you meet must voice his admiration, his wish to make love to you. And those are only the ones who may voice such thoughts. All about you are men who cannot speak their admiration, who must remain mute from lack of social standing or fear of offending you. Only their thoughts light the air about you, following you like a trail of perfume, heady but invisible. (Winter Makepeace) ↗

— Elizabeth Hoyt

#thief-of-shadows #winter #love

I know certain truths about life. ↗

— Dana Reinhardt

#knowledge #life #truth #inspirational

Wait for tomorrow To think tomorrow's thoughts. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#living-in-the-present #inspirational

The purpose of life is soul growth. We are here to become transcendent and to become one with God. There is no more to life than this. In other words, we are here to love. ↗

— Sara Wiseman

#god #heart-opening #inspiration #intuition #soul

Seek first the kingdom of heaven WITHIN, whereby lies an abundance of treasures and resources that you need ↗

— Lisa Washington

#inspiration #motivation #inspirational

so easy to take leave from the scent from the hue simply to tuck a hand under one's head and fall asleep the wind will not awake one the bee will not caress one with its dark wings to give oneself to the earth so hugely as to become not anything and not anywhere ↗

— Halina Poswiatowska. Polish poet.

#poetry #polish #poswiatowska #inspirational

For that reason, let a prince have the credit of conquering and holding his state, the means will always be considered honest, and he will be praised by everybody because the vulgar are always taken by what a thing seems to be and by what comes of it; and in the world there are only the vulgar, for the few find a place there only when the many have no ground to rest on. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#motivational #power #inspirational