Welcome to this month’s collection of recently encountered quotes!
Understand this, you can sound confident & have anxiety. You can look healthy but feel bad. You can look happy & be miserable. You can be good looking & feel ugly. So be kind because every person is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
[unknown]
Women who orgasm from penetration alone carry an older blueprint – a leftover from a time when the body needed the feedback loop of penetration to trigger ovulation.
[Sarah Ward; https://substack.com/home/post/p-190982511]
There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life’s bright mysterious expectations.
[Iris Murdoch]
When all seems lost and there is no hope left, remember that this time will pass and, you will look back and see how it made you stronger.
[unknown]
Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.
[Hesiod]
Where do bad rainbows go?
To prism. It’s a light sentence, but it gives them time to reflect.
[unknown]
Forgetting is not a flaw. It is a function. It allows movement. It allows redefinition.
[Kamila Murkowska]
Man’s a kind of missing link, fondly thinking he can think.
[Piet Hein]
Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
[Robert Hanlon]
The Shepherds Delight. Both by Day and by Night. Describing the Shepherds simplicity; And their Felicity: their birth, and their mirth: their lives, and their wives: their health and their wealth: their ways, and their plays: their diet, and quiet. And how with their Dam’sels they laugh and lye down, And to each pretty Virgin, they give a green gown.
[English 17th-century Broadside Ballad found in Samuel Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge]