“If you’re short of breath, it’s not because you aren’t breathing in enough—it’s because you’re not breathing out enough.”
― ChiRunning: A Revolutionary Approach to Effortless, Injury-Free Running
― ChiRunning: A Revolutionary Approach to Effortless, Injury-Free Running
“It should always make us happy to say that loving someone and being loved by someone is worth whatever price paid.”
― A Fall of Marigolds
― A Fall of Marigolds
“Dan wanted me to stay. I wanted Elf to stay. Everyone in the whole world was fighting with somebody to stay. When Richard Bach wrote "If you love someone, set them free" he can't have been directing his advice at human beings.”
― All My Puny Sorrows
― All My Puny Sorrows
“That was all he wanted for himself – to give to her. Biff's mouth hardened. He had done nothing wrong but in him he felt a strange guilt. Why? The dark guilt in all men, unreckoned and without a name.”
― The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
― The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
“Dear Woman,
Sometimes you’ll just be too much woman.
Too smart,
Too beautiful,
Too strong.
Too much of something that makes a man feel like less of a man,
Which will make you feel like you have to be less of a woman.
The biggest mistake you can make
Is removing jewels from your crown
To make it easier for a man to carry.
When this happens, I need you to understand
You do not need a smaller crown—
You need a man with bigger hands.”
―
Sometimes you’ll just be too much woman.
Too smart,
Too beautiful,
Too strong.
Too much of something that makes a man feel like less of a man,
Which will make you feel like you have to be less of a woman.
The biggest mistake you can make
Is removing jewels from your crown
To make it easier for a man to carry.
When this happens, I need you to understand
You do not need a smaller crown—
You need a man with bigger hands.”
―
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