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“Our culture is fascinated with self-improvement. But I’ll let you in on a secret: It’s easier to change other people than it is to change yourself.”
— James J. Sexton
Tagged: Self-improvement, How To Think, reinforcement, change in the world, change how you live, Change
“Is this dishonest? I don’t think so. Is wearing makeup dishonest? It’s changing the focus, accentuating the positive, and distracting the eye from the negative.”
— James J. Sexton
Tagged: manipulation, Love, Relationships, Makeup, illusion vs. reality, facade, Dishonesty, Truth
“I'm fist fighting with fire just to get close to you. Can we burn something, babe?”
— Rihanna, Love On The Brain
Tagged: Love, burning love, Attraction
“In love there are two things, bodies and words.”
— Joyce Carol Oates, Beautiful Days: Stories
Tagged: How To Think, Beautiful Things, Love, Words, enchantment, seduction, Bodies
“The strangeness of time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable.”
— Joyce Carol Oates, Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
Tagged: How To Think, beauty, Beautiful Words, Time, passages, passing
“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
— Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice: A Novel by Joyce Carol Oates(2000-10-02)
Tagged: How To Think, Becoming Yourself, The Person You'll Become, Shedding of Illusion
“Long eyelashes are valuable for the illusion they create of wide, gazing eyes. This elicits protecting and care-taking responses from adults.”
— Ashley Fetters, The Psychology Behind Why We Like Long, Dark Eyelashes
Tagged: beauty, Beauty Standards, Eyelashes, Eyes, Windows to the Soul
“The central fallacy in modern life is that accomplishments can produce deep satisfaction. That's false.”
— David Brooks, The Road to Character
Tagged: How To Think, Philosophy, Advice, Success, Thinking
“The average college GPA for a self-made millionaire is somewhere in the low B range. But at some crucial point in their lives, somebody told them they were too stupid to do something and they set out to prove the bastards wrong.”
— David Brooks, The Road to Character
Tagged: character, Failure, Success, success advice, Advice, Life, Philosophy, Thinking, How To Think
“Love is the strongest kind of army because it generates no resistance.”
— David Brooks, The Road to Character
Tagged: Philosophy, character, Thinking, Thought