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#1

“No Viking believed he could change his destiny, ordained as it was by the Norns who wove the fates of gods and men alike (Note 4) but, for all that, the way in which he lived his life was up to him. This sentiment is perfectly expressed by Skirnir in 'Skirnir's Journey': 'Fearlessness is better than a faint heart for any man who puts his nose out of doors. The length of my life and the day of my death were fated long ago.”
― Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Norse Myths

tags: destiny, fate, vikings

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#2

“Remember: Danes are direct descendants of Vikings, so we enjoy watching things burn: bonfires, candles, villages. It's all good.”
― Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Lykke: The Danish Search for the World's Happiest People

tags: burning, danish, happiness, happy, humor, vikings

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#3

“Brawl with a pig and you go away with his stink”
― Old Norse Proverbs

tags: norse, viking

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#4

“I never needed a Man. I needed a Viking. I needed someone who wasn't afraid of my strengths, or of my needs. I chose wrong... in the past. I thought I had to find someone who could put up with my hunger for life. But I was so damn wrong. I needed a Viking. I needed someone who would admire all the things about me that tepid men were intimidated by.”
― Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths

tags: love, man, poetry, relationships, strengths, viking

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#5

“Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey

tags: change, inspirational, self-confidence, self-esteem, trying

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#6

“... be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness...”
― Ann Voskamp

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#7

“We must not be taken in by the myth of youth, the unending propaganda to the effect that young men are younger than old men; that they are better looking; that they are slimmer, stronger and more athletic; that they can hold a girl in more romantic fashion and speak more sweetly.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Sensuous Dirty Old Man

tags: age-difference, isaac-asimov, the-sensuous-dirty-old-man

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#8

“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

tags: body-image, books, depression, insecurity, isolation, language, laughter, literature, philosophy, self-consciousness, self-image, self-loathing, shame, social-anxiety

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#9

“There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: be-yourself, beauty, body-image, comfortable, happiness, imperfection, inspirational, life, rare, success, women

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#10

“Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecurity initiated by beauty thinking. A woman who is self-conscious can't relax to let her sensuality come into play. If she is hungry she will be tense. If she is "done up" she will be on the alert for her reflection in his eyes. If she is ashamed of her body, its movement will be stilled. If she does not feel entitled to claim attention, she will not demand that airspace to shine in. If his field of vision has been boxed in by "beauty"--a box continually shrinking--he simply will not see her, his real love, standing right before him.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

tags: advertising, beauty, body-image, cosmetic-surgery, cosmetics, culture, diet-industry, double-standards, equality, feminism, images, magazines, marketing, mass-culture, objectification, plastic-surgery, self-esteem, sexuality, society

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#11

“A consequence of female self-love is that the woman grows convinced of social worth. Her love for her body will be unqualified, which is the basis of female identification. If a woman loves her own body, she doesn't grudge what other women do with theirs; if she loves femaleness, she champions its rights. It's true what they say about women: Women are insatiable. We are greedy. Our appetites do need to be controlled if things are to stay in place. If the world were ours too, if we believed we could get away with it, we would ask for more love, more sex, more money, more commitment to children, more food, more care. These sexual, emotional, and physical demands would begin to extend to social demands: payment for care of the elderly, parental leave, childcare, etc. The force of female desire would be so great that society would truly have to reckon with what women want, in bed and in the world.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

tags: advertising, aging, beauty, body-image, cosmetic-surgery, cosmetics, culture, diet-industry, double-standards, eating-disorders, equality, fashion-industry, feminism, images, magazines, marketing, mass-culture, objectification, plastic-surgery, pornography, self-esteem, self-love, sexual-violence, sexuality, society

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#12

“Using money in one’s attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one’s attempt to put an end to xenophobia.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

tags: borders, countries, money, poor, poor-people, poverty, social-constructs, xenophobia

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#13

“Mother Nature made continents. Human beings made countries.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: continent, continents, countries, country, mad-made, mother-nature, nature, passport, social-construction, social-constructs

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#14

“A society where feminine beauty is defined not by the human self on genuine intellectual and sentimental grounds, but by a computer software on the grounds of economic interest, is more dead than alive. It is a society of human bodies, not human beings.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

tags: achievement, beautiful, beautiful-women, beauty, beauty-and-the-beast, beauty-in-nature, beauty-quotes, beauty-standards, brainy-quotes, female, female-beauty, female-characters, female-empowerment, female-hero, female-liberation, female-protagonist, females, feminine, feminine-power, femininity, feminism, feminism-identity, feminismo, feminist, feminist-quotes, feminists, girl, girl-power, girl-quotes, girls, humanism, humanity, humankind, inspirational, inspiring-women, leadership, leadership-development, man-and-woman, man-and-woman-quote, mankind, model-photography, modeling, neuropsychology, photography, photography-quotes, portrait-photography, success, woman, woman-quotations, woman-quotes, woman-s-character, woman-s-strength, womanhood, women, women-and-men, women-empowerment, women-quotes, women-s-inspirational, women-s-rights, women-s-strength, womens-rights, words-of-wisdom

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#15

“Let her know that there are many individuals and many cultures that do not find the narrow mainstream definition of beauty attractive.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

tags: beauty-standards

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#16

“Even more money is transferred to the bank accounts of fashion designers, gym managers, dieticians, cosmeticians and plastic surgeons, who help us arrive at the café looking as similar as possible to the market’s ideal of beauty.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

tags: beauty-standards

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#17

“Girls have always been told that their value is tied to their appearance; their accomplishments are always magnified if they're pretty and diminished if they're not. Even worse, some girls get the message that they can get through life relying on just their looks, and then they never develop their minds. [...]

Being pretty is fundamentally a passive quality; even what you work at it, you're working at being passive.”
― Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

tags: aesthetics, beauty, beauty-standards, passive, passive-personality, pretty-girls, pretty-women, smart-or-pretty

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#18

“Beauty is the moment when time vanishes. Beauty is the space where eternity arises.”
― Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step

tags: beauty, beauty-in-life, beauty-in-literature, beauty-in-nature, beauty-of-life, beauty-quotes, beauty-standards, distance, eternity, eternity-quotes, meditation, mindfulness, mindfulness-practice, mindfulness-quotes, space, time, time-and-space, time-travel-romance, timelessness

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#19

“Women hide their imperfections instead of accepting them as an added charm.”
― Coco Chanel

tags: beauty-standards

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#20

“.. at a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.”
― Anna Quindlen

tags: aging, aging-gracefully, beauty, beauty-standards, getting-older, media

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#21

“Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality.”
― Iris Marion Young

tags: babies, breastfeeding, breasts, children, feminism, motherhood, parenting, women, womens-rights

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#22

“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: america, history, immigration, politics, revolution, united-states, usa

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#23

“Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.”
― Carlos Fuentes

tags: diversity, immigration, refugees

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#24

“There is no envy, jealousy, or hatred between the different colors of the rainbow. And no fear either. Because each one exists to make the others’ love more beautiful.”
― Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

tags: envy, hatred, jealousy, rainbow

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#25

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
― Jane Austen

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#26

“The sun is sitting on whom I was in order that I can become the type of person that I wish to be. The beauty of twilight is that it enhances everything. Personal change requires the courage to let go of personal security and venture into a new worlds. I look forward exploring personal thoughts and behaviors, and probing community customs and rituals. I hope to meet new people, expand knowledge of the world, eclipse my egoistical way of living, and devolve a lifestyle that in is synch with the natural rhythmic flow of that governs all lifeforms that inhabit this crusty rock and the watery world of rivers, seas, and oceans. I resolve to accept witnessing the splendor of nature as sufficient to satisfy all my wants and desires while also seeking to increase self-control, and attempt to sprinkle kindness upon the doorsteps leading to other people’s hearts.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: aging, aging-gracefully, bliss, enlightenment, enlightenment-principles, enlightenment-quotes, kindness-quotes, peacefulness, self-control

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#27

“Youth is not a curse, but a fleeting blessing. Youth enables us to cavort freely unconcerned with the larger issues in life. Aging and the accompanying responsibilities that come with added maturity is what augments, vexes, and then excises us. Maturation represents the accumulation of supplanting changes happening in a person over time including physical, mental, and social growth and development. Growing old gracefully entails submission to biological alterations and witnessing unsettling changes in cultural and societal conventions.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: aging-gracefully

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#28

“As our body journeys through life, and life journeys on our body….life will leave marks on us too. From the creases of our wrinkles to the birthmarks on our bodies to the tattoos we decide to place.”
― lauren klarfeld

tags: aging, aging-gracefully, aging-quotes, body, body-and-mind, body-image, journey-quotes, life, life-quotes, tattoos

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#29

“I look at Gloria with her red hair and glass of champagne and expression of utter disdain and wonder how many expletives she'd manage to fit into a sentence if I asked her to teach me to knit or bake me a cake.”
― Clare Furniss, How Not to Disappear

tags: aging-gracefully

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#30

“When we can’t see ourselves in our history, we begin to think that we are disconnected and suffering alone. Historical ignorance always precedes cultural imbalances and individual despair.”
― Aurin Squire

tags: history, minorities, second-class, second-class-citizen, unsung-heroes

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