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“Oh, I’m not much for heading back, Billy.”

“It was a common misconception-or so her thought process unfolded-that communism guaranteed an identical life for all. What communism actually guaranteed is that in place of lineage and luck, the state would determine who should get what after taking careful account of the greater good.”

“He was the only man in the house, but he also was the house. They lived inside his moods.”

“You have to git a man off your eyeball, before you can see anything a’tall. Many corrupt everything, say shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain’t. Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug.”

“Did mothers always try to press on their daughters the itineraries of which they themselves had dreamed?”

“Dear God, let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad….Let me be hungry… have too much to eat…. Let me be sincere-be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a lair. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”

“For here again we come within range of that very interesting and obscure masculine complex which has had so much influence upon the woman’s movement; that deepseated desire, not so much that she shall be inferior as that he shall be superior…” the feminism inside me is getting all riled up

pause in reading progress bc bear literally destroyed and ATE my book - waiting for new book to be delivered 🙃

“If there was only one tree like that in the world, you would think it was beautiful, but because there are so many you just can’t see how beautiful it really is.”

“Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have.”

to further my rant - seriously where did all the philosophers go? when did we switch from being a philosopher to being a professor in philosophy? have we as a society run out of things to say? dreaming of the days where artists and philosophers sat around cafes smoking and discussing life. have we just decided there is nothing left to ponder??? SHOW ME A PONDERER!! rant over.

walden got me thinking where did all the philosophers go ????

“To love someone, I have always understood, is to keep them safe.”

“Some psychologists believe there’s an imprinting mechanism at work with our first lives-that they set the mold we’ll spend the rest of our lives looking for another version of.”

“Something changed between us that day. I’d seen Debra at her worst, and I’ve found that is often what binds women together. Men admire each other when they are at their best , but women enjoy meeting each other in pits of despair.”

“Like every time I dole out a kernel of my history to someone who’s not going to become a fixture in my life, a piece of me gets carried away, somewhere I can never get it back.”

“Why can’t I be the same wearin’ lipstick as I am when my lips are bare? Shouldn’t it matter more what comes out of my lips than what is worn on them?”

It’s funny when you read something and it just sounds exactly like your inner thoughts

“Yes, people age horribly. They suffer strokes. Their bodies and brains fall apart. But the male ego? Firmly intact until the bitter end.”

“Influence in the world is a capital which has to be used with economy if it is to last.”

“If you take care of the minutes, the years will take care of themselves.”

“If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.” -Charles de Montesquieu
“Don’t compare yourself to other people; compare yourself to who you were yesterday.” -Jordan Peterson

“You are somewhere in your defining decade. That means your life is being decided by teeny something moments you may not realize are happening at all.” 🤢🤢🤢

“80% of life’s most defining moments take place by age 35. Your earning power is decided in your first 10 years of work. More than half of us are married, or dating or living with our future partner by age of 30. Your brain and your personality change more during your 20s than at any time before or after.” 🤢

“…for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence a there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new different sun.”

“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion ….