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“Chasing a man is not winning. The only thing you win is the loss of your dignity. Confidence is knowing your value, instead of expecting a man’s love to provide you with value.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: bad-karma, bargain-basement-prices, betrayers, cheaters, competition, dating, dating-advice, delusion, desperate, dignity, dogs, ego, empowerment, examples, exiting, eye-openers, false-confidence, false-happiness, forgetting, games, lack-of-value, lesson-in-life, letting-go, losing, love, low-self-esteem, marriages, men, mistakes, moving-on, observations, on-sale, pathetic, players, positive-women, regaining-control, relationships, revelation, sad, self-respect, self-worth, staying-positive, teenagers, the-good-life, truth, value, wasted-time, women

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“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad

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“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: romantic

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