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Here you play in the street, little chicken. Some day an automobile will run over you; and if it kills you, that will be the best thing that can happen. It may only break your leg or your wing. Then all of your life you will drag along in misery. Life is too hard for you, little bird. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#inspirational

It's this: that a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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When a man showed up you didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at yours, because it's painful to see somebody so clear that it's like looking inside him, but then neither did you want to to look away and lose him completely. You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it may be, or you could relax and lose yourself. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#decision-making #inspirational #life #reality #truth

And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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Sometimes the Lord allows us to go through tough times so we learn to rely upon Him. ↗

— Shirley Corder

#inspirational #the-lord #tough-times #inspirational

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#men #men-and-women #routine #love

Men like Carew, he knows, tend to blame him, Cromwell, for Anne’s rise in the world; he facilitated it, he broke the old marriage and let in the new. He does not expect them to soften to him, to include him in their companionship; he only wants them not to spit in his dinner. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#marriage

There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power. ↗

— Morgan Llywelyn

#men #politics #power #war #men

Do you inquire why, holding these views and possessing some will of my own, i accept so imperfect a proposition? I answer, because I live among men and not among angels. ↗

— Thaddeus Stevens

#men

Intercourse was now forbidden to everyone but married people; bundling disappeared. In its place young courting couples engaged in "petting"--which, interpreted broadly, meant that they were could do anything sexual short of intercourse. Women were now held responsible for controlling men's beastly sexuality--halting them from simply plunging ahead--at the same time that they were expected to be sexually innocent: an impossible position. ↗

— Leora Tanenbaum

#history #sexuality #men