All men are assholes, some just have been and some are still to become.
Contributed by: Frederik Kerling.
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All men are assholes, some just have been and some are still to become.
The three glues that hold humankind together are the courage of women, the compassion of men and the laughter of children.
No man is worth your tears and the one that is wont make you cry.
History is not made on the beads of an abacus. It is made in the minds of men.
Normal men, speak, listen and than think.
Wise men, listen, think and then speak.
Wise women, listen, think and speak all at the same time.
While normal women don't seem to think or listen at all,
to normal men that is.
"If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?"
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"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get use to the idea."
Only when a man's interior warriors are strong enough can he go into the joy of display.
With this strength he can also enter into the delight of form. Shapeless clothing, verse that is sloppy, chaotic furnishings: all are linked in secret ways to shame. The universe is not ashamed, and it delights in form. The sun rising over the ocean and setting in the ocean, the moon's lonely shinings and hidings, the leaves unfolding and falling are its displays.
Poetry is a form of display. The poet bird repeats vowels and consonants in order to widen his tail. Meter and counted syllables make up a peacock tail. The poem is a dance done for some being in the other world.
When a man welcomes his responsiveness, or what we sometimes call his internal woman, he often feels warmer, more companionable, more alive. But when he approaches what I'll call the "deep male," he feels risk. Welcoming the Hairy Man is scary and risky, and it requires a different sort of courage. Contact with Iron John requires a willingness to descend into the male psyche and accept what's dark down there, including the nourishing dark.
A boy, a man and eternity make a circle.
A boy tosses a ball into the air and it falls into the hands of a man.
A man tosses the same ball into the air and it falls into the hands of eternity.
Eternity tosses the ball into the air and it falls into the hands of a boy...
“No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.”
It's not that I believe women are more ethical. I will say that one of women's greatest weaknesses is probably our greatest strength. We are incredibly hard on each other. We ask all the questions. Men are more easygoing. If you've ever been in a group of women, you'll recognize this: Nobody gives one woman the opportunity to lead the way without asking a whole lot of questions.
So when I say that I think we would have a different ethical level, particularly in corporate America, if there were more women involved, I mean that what women are best at is asking questions. Women ask questions over and over again. It drives men nuts. Women tend to ask the detailed questions; they want to know the answers.
Now, on the other hand, if we booted all the men out of corporate America, and we had all women there, quite honestly I think they'd be just as corrupt as what we have right now. I think it's best to have diversity and different points of view.
During the Q&A periods after my speeches, it is the men who say to me, "Help me understand how I am going to balance my work and my family." Now, let me tell you why I believe they see it that way. Because when they look around the room, they see the women who are going to be in their lives, the choices they will have for a spouse. And they realize that these women are educated, ambitious, and have every intention of having careers of their own.
Being smart young men, they say to themselves, "I want to get married, have a family, and I understand my wife wants to work too. Do you, Vicki, know how to help us do that?" Because they're no longer looking at that prospective wife, saying, "Well this is wonderful, you're getting educated, but of course as soon as we get married, you're going to stay home and make babies."
Those days are long gone. But our corporations haven't caught up with it. Our law firms, our higher education system, and our medical institutions haven't figured out how this family policy is going to work. Men are tired of the 80- to 100-hour work week as well.
I believe in dragons, perfect men, and other mythical creatures.
Humanity will one day be defined, not by the gifts we possess but the virtues we lack.
Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.
Bystanders wandered in and out of the merchant's stall, passing the time, talking of dreams they might purchase. Workers and slaves stooped from labor asked timidly for dreams of wine and ease. Women asked for dreams of love, and men for dreams of women.
Nobody ever said it was simple to be a man. If it were, more guys would try it.
The Irish are the only men who know how to cry
for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
quoted from page 264 of the book AN AMERICAN DREAM by Norman Mailer
linked to BookCrossing.com StoneHarpMan journal entry 5089663
Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade, since it consists principally of dealing with men.
This idea of doing it all is the enemy of equality, not the path to do it. It's impossible to do two full-time jobs, and an impossible definition of success is just another way of making women feel like failures... Any definition of success has to include social policies that honor families and men who raise babies as much as women do.
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
On one of his journeys Diogenes was captured by pirates, who sold him as a slave to Xeniades of Corinth. When his owner asked him what he could do, he answered, “Govern men.”
You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.
Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.
A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.
It is easier to build strong children, than to repair broken men.
"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career."
We are born male. We must learn to be men. Remember, strength is a force. It is an attribute of the heart. Its opposite is not weakness and fear, but confusion, lack of clarity, and lack of sound intention. If you are able to discern the path with heart and follow it even when at the moment it seems wrong, then and only then are you strong. Remember the words of Tao te ching. "The only true strength is a strength that people do not fear." Strength based in force is a strength people fear. Strength based in love is a strength people crave.