"In patriarchal culture men are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort. More often than not they do not want to do the work that love demands. When the practice of love invites us to enter a place of potential bliss that is at the same time a place of critical awakening and pain, many of us turn our backs on love."

-- Bell Hooks

#Pain Quotes #Men Quotes #Practice Quotes

“No one should question the faith of others, for no human being can judge the ways of God.”
“I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.”
“I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music. I'm as Hollywood as it gets. Not internally but externally - that's my bloodline.”

Source : "Hot Tracks: Robin Thicke". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November 2013.
“I can't think of anything I want and need that I don't already have but at the same time, I'm not sated.”
“He gave her his heart. She took it and placed it quietly in the pocket of her gown. No one observed what she did.”
“Faith is that quality or power by which the things desired become the things possessed.”

Source : Kathryn Kuhlman (1973). “Captain LeVrier believes in miracles”
“The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.”
“I got rid of my teeth at a young age because I'm straight. Teeth are for gay people. That's why fairies come and get them.”

Source : "Fictional character: Master Shake". "Aqua Teen Hunger Force (TV Series). Interfection", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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