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For a woman's words to wound would require a man to listen first! ↗

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. ↗

I think that’s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it’s not a secret at all; men just don’t know how to listen. ↗

— Marlon James

#listening #men #men-and-women #secret #toni-morrison

Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs. ↗

— Kristin Hannah

#money

Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11). ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#bonus #christianity #corinthians #excess #giving

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. ↗

— Samuel Lover

#instruments #rulers #weak #wise

The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#nature

You don't invent circumstances, but when they happen they reveal human nature. ↗

— Louis Khan

#human-nature #nature

[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of failing to understand ourselves and misinterpreting the behaviour of others, of growing unproductively anxious or desirous, and of losing ourselves to vanity and error. Surreptitiously and beguilingly, then, with humour or gravity, works of art--novels, poems, plays, paintings or films--can function as vehicles to explain our condition to us. They may act as guides to a truer, more judicious, more intelligent understanding of the world. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#art #criticism #desire #films #gravity