#wisdom

Mom, how do you know if the guy is the guy?” You mean if he’ll be a good husband?” She pauses, then says “The ticket is for the man to love the woman more than she loves him.” Shouldn’t it be equal?” Mom cackles. “It can never be equal.” But what if the woman loves the man more?” A life of hell awaits her. As women, the deck is stacked against us because time is our enemy. We age, while men season. And trust me, there are plenty of women out there looking for a man, and they don’t mind staking a claim on somebody else’s husband, no matter how old, creaky, and deaf they are. ↗

— Adriana Trigiani

#men #wisdom #woman #age

It's not surprising, therefore, that the [Bisy] Backson thinks of progress in terms of fighting and overcoming. One of his little idiosyncrasies, you might say. Of course, real progress involves growing and developing, which involves changing inside, but that's something the inflexible Backson is unwilling to do. ↗

— Benjamin Hoff

#progress #wisdom #change

There you go again, declaring the exact inverse of your experience. You human pups are so full of the things you're sure of. Sit down and listen for a change. ↗

— J. Aleksandr Wootton

#human-experience #listening #silence #wisdom #change

To say, “I’ve been converted and that’s that,” is to say you have decided to quit growing. If life is about anything, it is about growing. The day I quit changing and learning is the day I die. ↗

— Steve Goodier

#commitment #conversion #grow #growth #personal-development

Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#prophetic #wisdom #writing #age

Think, how hard it is to change yourself. How can it be easy to change others? ↗

— Shri Radhe Maa

#meditation #quotes-and-saying #quotes-of-life #radhe-guru-maa #radhe-maa

The mouth is made for communication, and nothing is more articulate than a kiss. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#communication #funny #inspirational #kiss #kissing-quotes

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#foolishness #knowledge #sharing #teaching #wisdom

humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#effective-communication #humor #ignorance #knowledge #wisdom

Wrote my way out of the hood...thought my way out of poverty! Don't tell me that knowledge isn't power. Education changes everything. ↗

— Brandi L. Bates

#hard-work #knowledge-wisdom #mind #power #writing