"You donâ€™t need to marry a man with millions. You only need to be your exquisite self."

-- Anna Godbersen

#Men Quotes #Self Quotes #Needs Quotes

“people have a way of laughing at our deams until we make them come true.”
“How about this?" I said, because now it was the principle of the thing. "I'm sorry, jackass.”

Source : Rosemary Clement-Moore (2011). “Texas Gothic”, p.157, Random House
“Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.”
“Shebna scraped the tablet clean and began drawing circles in the soft clay. "Suppose you had six figs and you ate two. How many would--" "Four." Hezekiah answered before Shebna finished, and the tutor's thick black eyebrows rose in surprise. "And suppose I had five figs. How many would we--" "Nine." "Have you done this before?" Hezekiah thought the question was ridiculous. "I've eaten figs lots of times.”

Source : Lynn Austin (2016). “The Chronicles of the Kings Collection: Five Novels in One”, p.129, Baker Books
“You have to be vigilant about keeping your own fire alive.”
“Wherever love comes from, whatever is its genesis, it isnâ€™t like a quantity of gold or diamonds, even water in the earth-a fixed quantity, Fos thought. You canâ€™t use up love, deplete it at its source. Love exists beyond fixed limits. Beyond what you can see or count.”

Source : Marianne Wiggins (2003). “Evidence of Things Unseen: A Novel”, p.119, Simon and Schuster
“We live a pleasant life shopping at the Food Shoppe . . . taking the kids to the Weinery-Beanery, . . . and eating bran flakes . .. and then, with no warning, we wake up one morning stricken with middle age, full of loneliness, dumb, in pain. Our work is useless, our vocation is lost, and nobody cares about us at all. This is not bearable. In despair, we go do something spectacularly dumb, like run away with Amber the cocktail waitress, and suddenly all the women in our life look at us with unmitigated disgust.”
“Son, if a maiden love thee, thou shalt appear handsome in her sight; she shall praise thine eyes, and the corners of thy mouth, yea, she shall admire thy hands. Though thou wert even as the orangutan yet shall she paint thee with fancies.”

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