Just because you’re naked doesn’t mean you’re sexy. Just because you’re cynical doesn’t mean you’re cool.
– Tom Robbins
May 142013
May 132013
If we listened to our intellect we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go in business because we’d be cynical: “It’s gonna go wrong.” Or “She’s going to hurt me.” Or,”I’ve had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . .” Well, that’s nonsense. You’re going to miss life. You’ve got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.
– Ray Bradbury
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9120-if-we-listened-to-our-intellect-we-d-never-have-a
May 122013
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
– Lord Byron
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/g/georgebyro201613.html
May 112013
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
May 102013
Try a thing you haven’t done three times.
Once, to get over the fear of doing it.
Twice, to learn how to do it.
And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.
May 092013
The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual exclusivity, but by actual respect, concern, commitment to act with kind intentions, accountability for our actions, and a desire for mutual growth.
– Dean Spade, in his essay For Lovers and Fighters
Attorney, educator and trans activist Dean Spade is author of Against Equality and Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law
May 082013
When jealousy rears up, it indicates that something inside of you is afraid. It’s an alarm, nothing less and nothing more. Treat it as such.
– Anthony D. Ravenscroft, Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless and Hopeful
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/539434-when-jealousy-rears-up-it-indicates-that-something-inside-of