#standards

It's a lot harder to get someone OUT of your life than it is to let them IN, so please…be selective. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#friends #friendship #honoring-yourself #letting-go #loving-yourself

It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#drama #friends #friendship #holding-out-for-the-best #honoring-yourself

Look around you at the people you spend the most time with and realize that your life can’t rise any higher than your friendships. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#friendship #holding-out-for-the-best #letting-go #letting-go-of-negative-people #loving-yourself

Stop inviting people who don't celebrate you to your party! It's YOUR life - you have the right to be exclusive. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#friendship #honoring-yourself #letting-go #loving-yourself #moving-on

We must be the ones to re-define the world class standards of excellence ↗

— Fela Durotoye

#leadership #nigeria #standards #leadership

[on Purgatory] It is, of course, open to anyone to say that the whole idea is morbid and exaggerated--open even to those who think nothing of queuing for twenty-four hours in acute discomfort to see the first night of a musical comedy, which lasts three hours at most, which they are not sure of liking when they get there, and which they could see any other night with no trouble at all. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#purgatory #music

Men who read it [beauty pornography] don't do so because they want women who look like that. The attraction of what they are holding is that it is not a woman, but a two-dimensional woman-shaped blank. The appeal of the material is not the fantasy that the model will come to life; it is precisely that she will not, ever. Her coming to life would ruin the vision. It is not about life. Ideal beauty is ideal because it does not exist; The action lies in the gap between desire and gratification. Women are not perfect beauties without distance. That space, in a consumer culture, is a lucrative one. The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage, its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

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

The problem with Christianity is more people profess the truth than live it. So much hypocrisy abounds that I can no longer say I count myself among them without being held to the same unachievable standard. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#fake #false #hypocrisy #immorality #judgement

When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#bombarded #children #corners #dark #day

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#america #confusion #furthermore #infrequently #inversion