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A barrier is a limitation only when you perceive it as one. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

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

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#age #chivalry #dead #earth #left

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

If love were a color, it’d be transparent, like all women’s clothing should be. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#humor #love #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

I have learned to kiss the wave that drives me against the Rock of Ages. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#faith #sovereignty-of-god #trials #age

I was headed out down a long bone-white road, straight as a string and smooth as glass and glittering and wavering in the heat and humming under the tires like a plucked nerve. I was doing seventy-five but I never seemed to catch up with the pool which seemed to be over the road just this side of the horizon. Then, after a while, the sun was in my eyes, for I was driving west. So I pulled the sun screen down and squinted and put the throttle to the floor. And kept on moving west. For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you go when you hear that thar's gold in them-thar hills. It is where you go to grow up with the country. It is where you go to spend your old age. Or it is just where you go. It was just where I went. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#west #age

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#art