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It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it. ↗

— Maurice Switzer

#remaining-silent #wisdom #wisdom

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#solitude #women

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#housekeeping #orgasm #sex #sexuality #women

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope. ↗

— Barack Obama

#helping-others #hope #initiative #just-do-it #proactivity

Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#people

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#people

If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you. ↗

— A.A. Milne

#think

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right. ↗

— Henry Ford

#think

Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate. ↗

— John Green

#chocolate #joy #pleasures #suffering #think

The past is never where you think you left it. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#think