#sm

Just let go of the need to care about whether it happens or not, then you are free from fear and can then concentrate on focusing. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

The first rule when you are in a hole is to ask for a hand out! ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone else she said, 'How can you write a middle-aged woman this well?' I said, 'If you met my mom you wouldn't ask'. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#feminist #joss-whedon #maternal-influence #pro-feminist #whedon

I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic system was (rightfully) dismantled, it was not necessarily replaced by another form of protection. What I mean is--I never thought to ask a suitor the same challenging questions my father might have asked him, in a different age. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#self-esteem #travel #age

Whose little boy are you? ↗

— James Baldwin

#black #church #coming-of-age #epiphany #god

When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed centerfold, always receding before him, keeps the man destabilized in pursuit, unable to focus on the beauty of the woman--known, marked, lined, familiar—-who hands him the paper every morning. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#aging #beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics

If you can't quite make it as a high flier then join a trampoline club. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#truths #age

You cannot run at full throttle when applying your mindset to all of the different things running through your head. Focusing is the key to manifesting your desires. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #focus #focusing #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit

The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work. ↗

— Ray Kurzweil

#minimalism #age