Without love, we are birds with broken wings.
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you’ll have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
– Emily Post
When in doubt, empty the magazine.
Try to look unimportant, because the bad guys may be low on ammo.
The important things are always simple.
The simple things are always hard.
The easy way is always mined.
– excerpts from Marine Corps Wisdom
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
– Joseph Campbell
It is not the easy or convenient life for which I search, but life lived to the edge of all that I may be.
I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don’t mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling, be all that I am capable of doing, but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding.
– Anais Nin
Be kind. Every person you meet is fighting a terrible battle.
– Plato
The Lord is a shelter for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. (Psalm 9:9 NLT).