I am here to keep becoming truer, more beautiful versions of myself again and again forever. To be alive is to be in a perpetual state of revolution.
– from Untamed book by Glennon Doyle
Category: Quotes
Japanese women are required to be …
Japanese women are required to be self-denying, hard-working and ascetic, and in the same breath, to be feminine, soft and caring towards men. Everyone finds that an impossible balance to strike, and they struggle desperately as a result. Even when they do manage to strike it, there’s no redemption to be had. They’re never fully free.
– from Butter book by Asako Yuzuki
Friendship, companionship: it so often defied …
Friendship, companionship: it so often defied logic, so often eluded the deserving, so often settled itself on the odd, the bad, the peculiar, the damaged.
– from A Little Life book by Hanya Yanagihara
The technology war is much more …
The technology war is much more serious than the trade/economic war because whoever wins the technology war will probably also win the military wars and all the other wars.
– from Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order book by Ray Dalio
Wisdom that isn’t distilled in our …
Wisdom that isn’t distilled in our own crucible can’t help us.
– from The Palace of Illusions book by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
When you’ve had a taste of …
When you’ve had a taste of magic, it’s hard to be satisfied with the ordinary again.
– from The Lost Bookshop book by Evie Woods
Women are the pivot on which …
Women are the pivot on which everything turns.
– from Anna Karenina book by Leo Tolstoy
Trying to learn about sex from …
Trying to learn about sex from porn is like trying to learn about the mountains by sniffing one of those air fresheners they sell at the gas station. When you finally get to the real mountains and breathe in that pure, wild air – you might be confused. You might wish it smelled like that fake, manufactured air-freshener version.
– from Untamed book by Glennon Doyle
Man was matter. Drop him out …
Man was matter. Drop him out a window and he’ll fall. Set fire to him and he’ll burn. Bury him and he’ll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage.
– from Catch-22 book by Joseph Heller
If, say, all of your money …
If, say, all of your money is in one bank, one brokerage, one country, one currency, one asset class, or one fund, you may be playing with a loaded gun. With luck, you can get away with anything in the short term. With time, the odds rise that your vulnerability will be exposed by unforeseen events.
– from Richer, Wiser, Happier book by William Green