#stan

Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#hatred #understanding #love

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

Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper. ↗

— Christine de Pisan

#just #men #sharper #softer #than

You have splendid breasts, lass," he purred, cupping the plump mounds. "Splendid," he repeated stupidly, and she almost laughed. Men loved breasts any shape or form, they just loved them. -Drustan to Gwen ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#gwen #karen-marie-moning #kiss-of-the-highlander #love

I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#crisis #garbage #life #truth #understanding

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#understanding #unity #business

As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#approved #before #general #getting #had

A spirit of license makes a man refuse to commit himself to any standards. The right time is the way he sets his watch. The yardstick has the number of inches that he wills it to have. Liberty becomes license, and unbounded license leads to unbounded tyranny. When society reaches this stage, and there is no standard of right and wrong outside of the individual himself, then the individual is defenseless against the onslaught of cruder and more violent men who proclaim their own subjective sense of values. Once my idea of morality is just as good as your idea of morality, then the morality that is going to prevail is the morality that is stronger. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#morality #objective-truth #standards #men

Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgments and create the space for new understanding. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#free-thought #inspirational #judging #life #motivational

People so often loose sight of the magic in life once they understand how it works. ↗

— Thomas Rogal II

#life-lessons #magic #understanding #art