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Ladies, what in the world is wrong with men? I mean besides all the really obvious stuff. They think they have the handle on everything. And if a lady gets in behind the wheel of a sports car, they act all crazy, like we don't belong. Same thing with motorcycles. Let a gal cruise down the highway on her hog and you'd think she was Lady Godiva for all the stares that she gets. I got news for you, just because we don't...doesn't mean that we can't. Seriously, boys, you can be replaced by a few inches of rubber and a couple of D-cell batteries, so I wouldn't be too cocky.
— T.W. Brown, That Ghoul Ava & The Queen of the Zombies
If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
— O. Henry, The Four Million
Blue screen of death: she'd crashed his system. Oh, well. Boys were so unstable that way, full of buggy, self-contradictory code, pathetically unoptimized.
— Lev Grossman, The Magician King
Wolves fail to hide their integrity just like the way men fail to hide their own animality.
— Munia Khan
I had a dream about you last night. You set a timer on in the bathroom to prove how long it takes me to get ready. So I shaved your legs, made up your face and gave you lashes. An hour later you thanked God for not making you a woman.
— Crystal Woods, Dreaming is for lovers
I’d decided last night, and strengthened my resolve this morning, to have eyes for no man but Jesus. If intimacy was really what He desired most, then I desired it too. I felt strangely free from life as I had known it…
— Amy Rachel Peterson, Perpetua: A Bride, a Martyr, a Passion
I have only met men like you in novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies.
— Sachin Kundalkar, Cobalt Blue
an utter walkover with a man who can pen a pretty email
— Mhairi McFarlane, Here's Looking at You
Small boys were a mystery to Sylvie. The satisfaction they gained from throwing sticks or stones for hours on end, the obsessive collection of inanimate objects, the brutal destruction of the fragile world around them, all seemed at odds with the men they were supposed to become.
— Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
Sure, and fatherhood is super important too. I'm not trying to make this a women-only club by any means. Just that even men rarely view their role in child rearing as the most important thing they do, when in fact it is clearly the most important thing that anybody does.
— Rufi Thorpe, The Girls from Corona del Mar
Ah! A man who doesn't know how to watch love is so silly. You really need a lesson.
— Rachilde, The Juggler
She sighed. Men were a pain.
— Larry McMurtry, The Last Kind Words Saloon
And just look at these men: their eye saith it - they know nothing better on earth than to be with a woman.Filth is at the bottom of their souls
—  and alas! If their filth hath spirit in it!
Relationships for women are more than taking off the clothes and wearing them back. It is about attachment of emotions, and feelings, but on the other hand, men are like fast and furious.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Women divided by ego and united by gossip ,Men divided by women and united by beer
— Yash Gupta
Would it not be downright cruel to keep him in semi-captivity in a town or city, where the opportunities for wreaking havoc and destruction upon the landscape are necessarily so limited? In a word, is it right to attract Wombats?
— Will Cuppy, How to Attract the Wombat
Men like fun much more than they like clever
— Mhairi McFarlane, Here's Looking at You
Chasing a man is not winning. The only thing you win is the loss of your dignity. Confidence is knowing your value, instead of expecting a man’s love to provide you with value.
— Shannon L. Alder
God doesn’t give us pain to make us strong. He gives us strength to look inside ourselves and realize we are not innocent victims. When you learn humility, you are no longer a victim because a humble man is not self-absorbed. He seeks to understand why people are hurting him and takes responsibility for his part in their grief. Humility doesn’t dwell with anger or pride, and neither does God.
— Shannon L. Alder
Maybe that is the one real division between men: wood men and desert men.
— Kurban Said, Ali and Nino: A Love Story
Men demand much more than you think," she would tell her enigmatically. "There's a lot of cooking, a lot of sweeping, a lot of suffering over little things beyond what you think.
— Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
God knows both your name and address. When the right man comes along God will lead him to your door. And that man will recognize your name.
— Michelle McKinney Hammond, The Unspoken Rules of Love: What Women Don't Know and Men Don't Tell You
Are men like babies? Is trying to distract them a better tactic than asking them to behave reasonably?
— Sophie Hannah, The Wrong Mother
This might not mean much to you right now, but fer what it's worth, I'll tell you. Maybe I know better'n most. Life ain't black an white. People ain't neether. Family, friends, lovers. It's all a lot more complicated. The longer I live, the more I see, the less I know fer sure. Especially when it comes to matters of the heart. So dry yer tears. Whoever he is, he won't be cryin over you. Men never do. That's the one thing I do know fer sure. Now, muck up them boots a bit.
— Moira Young, Rebel Heart
The discerning one walketh amongst men as amongst animals.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Men often think submission indicates weakness, that letting someone else take charge betrays a character deficit. But we all submit to strangers who drill into our teeth as long as we can see the parchment on their wall which reads “Dentist.
— Edmond Manning, King Perry
Never go to another woman about your woman. Not unless you want an insidious form of advice.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Happiness is part of being whole. It means having an understanding of your identity and purpose, an established feeling of acceptance and value, and a sense of destiny, joy, and peace -- all of which produce overall well-being. It is impossible to be consistently happy without these characteristics. All people need to know who they are, why they are here, and to whom they belong. Having an understanding of who we are in Christ is foundational to the belief system that allows us to possess these qualities. The Bible says in Romans 14:17 that the kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. You find in this passage all these characteristics that grow out of being in right relationship with God. His presence is always accompanied by peace and joy; in other words, a sense of total well-being.
— Michelle McKinney Hammond, The Unspoken Rules of Love: What Women Don't Know and Men Don't Tell You
When we want a man to do something for us, we are asking for his investment and commitment- however big/small....Show our commitment first by doing something to add value to the relationship. Something he perceives as value.
— Renee Wade
You've got two witnesses here. Happiness is a wholeness issue. If you want to be happy, you need to be whole. If you want to be married, you simply need a mate. If you want to be happily married, you need to be a whole person married to another whole person.
— Michelle McKinney Hammond, The Unspoken Rules of Love: What Women Don't Know and Men Don't Tell You
[The] women's movement has been a blessing in many ways. [But] even as we have gained more physical and social opportunities, we are more spiritually and emotionally enslaved than ever in other arenas. Why? Because Satan has cleverly switched one form of oppression -- the undervaluing of women by men -- for another and perhaps more devastating form-- the undervaluing of women by themselves.
— Wendy C. Top, Getting Past the Labels: How the Truth Makes Women Free
War doesn't have heroes, it only has the men who lost so many things in their life that they just keep going and do the most unthinkable things, just because they don't care anymore.
— Wouter Van Gastel
How does he get that caveman shit to work for him? I would get my balls ripped off and stuffed in my mouth if I pulled what he does.
— Erin McCarthy, Full Throttle
Poverty is a great evil, but to a woman of education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest.—I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.
— Jane Austen, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon
Women are created to inspire….. Neither men nor women utilize this well.
— Sameh Elsayed
Manhood had come to him, both in character and demeanour, not as it comes to most young lads, an eagerly-desired and presumptuously-asserted claim, but as a rightful inheritance, to be received humbly, and worn simply and naturally.
— Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, John Halifax, Gentleman
When words don’t add up in love, it is because of six possible reasons: 1. They are afraid to tell you the truth because you will leave them. 2. They enjoy being a liar or playing people because of ego reasons and/or control. 3. They don’t know the truth themselves. 4. They are undecided. 5. They refuse to let their guard down and be vulnerable because you or someone else have hurt them tremendously. 6. You are not being told all the information because of a break down in communication.
— Shannon L. Alder
It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon long ago. Children must starve in Somalia for that, and old women be abandoned in our greatest cities. It’s why we will finally be thrown into the lakes of molten lead. Because she was confused by happiness that first time anyone said she was beautiful. Nevertheless, she must be the issue, so people won’t notice that rocks and galaxies, mathematics and rust are also created in His image.
— Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
You can't be a man and a coward at the same time.
— Jum Jumms
Marriage is more than finding the right person…it is being the right person!
— Elizabeth George
Examine the lives of the best and more fruitful men and peoples, and ask yourselves whether a tree, if it is to grow proudly into the sky, can do without bad weather and storms: whether unkindness and opposition from without, whether some sort of hatred, envy, obstinacy, mistrust, severity, greed and violence do not belong to the favouring circumstances without which a great increase even in virtue is hardly possible. The poison which destroys the weaker nature strengthens the stronger – and he does not call it poison, either.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
There's an innocent displacement, a dreaming, and idols are perfect for a little girl's dreaming. They aren't real. They aren't the gas station attendant trying to lure you into the back of the service station, a paperboy trying to lure you into a toolshed, a friend's father trying to lure you into his car. They don't lure. They beckon, but like desert mirages.
— Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers
Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all the time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will always be, the tragedy of the bedroom.
— Leo Tolstoy
I guess it’s true: it’s difficult for men to understand women.
— Santonu Kumar Dhar, Life of Love
I suppose men, even myself, are perpetually boys. The sons of parents who provide the staples of what makes up a life— a home, an example of what it means to be human, however fucked up that may be. We are molded by impressions and an example, single days that stick out, and wounds that split us open and never close. We take on other people’s pain and sometimes make them ours.
— M. Spio, A Song for Carmine
O my Mansoul, I have lived, I have died, I live, and I will die no more for thee. I live that thou mayest not die. Because I live thou shalt live also; I reconciled thee to my Father by the blood of My cross, and being reconciled thou shalt live through me. I will pray for thee, I will fight for thee, I will yet do thee good. Nothing can hurt thee but sin; nothing can grieve Me but sin; nothing can make thee base before thy foes but sin; take heed of sin, my Mansoul.
— John Bunyan, The Holy War
Think about it. For the sake of fame, men will risk great dangers. They put themselves in the jaws of death more than for their children. For fame, they will spend their money like water and work their fingers to the bone. Have you not observed this in your own home?
— Karen Essex, Stealing Athena
Men. Do they all evade as first line of defense?
— Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever
I realised when it came to men, I did not pick the beautiful or the correct. I picked the wrong one.
— Rabih Alameddine, I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
Banning the word bossy doesn’t promote anything, especially leadership. In fact, it would actually show that being bossy works. We don’t need to ban the word bossy, we need to get rid of bossiness. The best way to do that? Be a real leader. How poetic.
— Darrell Cheney
He turned the corner and flipped me off at the same time. See? Men could multitask. I was so proud of him.
— Darynda Jones, Sixth Grave on the Edge
I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.
— Roald Dahl, Matilda
Men are like wine-some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
— John Paul II
I was in love with a beautiful blond once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.
— W.C. Fields
Guns are like men—only useful for a little while. They can go off at a moment's notice when you don't want them to and they make a lot of damn fool noise doing it.
— R.S. Belcher, The Six-Gun Tarot
It takes confidence to be wholeheartedly intimate and passionately committed. Men who are emotionally unavailable have a self-confidence deficit, plain and simple. So man up and get rid of those insecurities or whatever it is that keeps you from opening up. Because if you're not man enough to talk about your own feelings, then you're not man enough to be in a committed relationship.
— Dennis  James
It is my belief that with two such men in the household and no way to meet others, Emily (Bronte)had to make Heathcliff up out of thin air! And what a fine job she did. Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.
— Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
There are things that man is not meant to interfere with, and the robust yet fragile temper of a woman is one of them.
— youssef
Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.
— Booth Tarkington, Alice Adams
God’s approval should be your standard for success.
— Jim George
I have loved many men, but only one in real life. All of the other men who have ever stolen my heart in more than friendship, are in books.
— Alyse M. Gardner
The truth is ladies...Good men are an endangered specie. So if you have a good man dont shuffle your KING for a JOKER.
— Crystal Evans
Just by virtue of their fantastically wonderful ability to approach life from the heart instead of the ego, women have a head start on us with their natural tendency to already live life to its fullest potential.
— Dennis  James, THE MAN FIX: The Stuff MEN SHOULD ADMIT And WOMEN SHOULD KNOW
The tyrant-father of Heaven, the one who created, hated and drove out the first woman, yoked men with a horrible curse, far worse than any imagined to have been handed down to Eve. Men were told they were masters of this world, of their mates, of the beasts and fish, of the land and sea and sky. How ridiculous! That's like telling a little boy he's in charge of the house when his da is gone. It's silly!"And like that little boy, men have tried to live up to the unreasonable demands of their mute, wayward, celestial father. They have enslaved and dominated, conquered and killed, all in the name of shepherding, of protecting, of ruling the world. They spend their lives trying to do what they think is right, what their father on high would want of them. The bastard.
— R.S. Belcher, The Six-Gun Tarot
What is there to be frightened of? We shall be dealing only with men.
— P.D. James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Y'know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations, like sitting on frozen peas after a vasectomy
— Josh Stern, And That's Why I'm Single: What Good Is Having A Lucky Horseshoe Up Your Butt When The Horse Is Still Attached?
Admit to yourself women are equal. In fact go ahead and say it. They're superior. Nuff said.
— Dennis  James, THE MAN FIX: The Stuff MEN SHOULD ADMIT And WOMEN SHOULD KNOW
How many men do you personally know whom you would typically classify as Kind, Gentle and Loving...I'm guessing the list is not very long. Now think of the women whose lives are characterized by those same virtues. I'm going to go with, that list is probably much longer.
— Dennis  James
The next time you feel like withdrawing, make a decision to take action and fight the defense mechanism that says to keep your feelings inside. Let those feelings out for goodness sake. Jump on the rooftop if you feel like it and express yourself to the world. You'll be glad you did. Learn to open up and you'll discover a whole new side of yourself. You'll live happier and so will the folks around you. Everybody wins.
— Dennis  James
They are like men: if bold, the better of scolding; if timid, the better of praise and flattery.
— Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Only one advantage still remained to Mandred, an edge that Vrrmik could never take from him. The soldiers who marched behind his banner were men and it was the hearts of men that beat within their breasts, hearts that could be moved to selflessness, could be stirred to valour and fired with courage. However numerous Vrrmik’s horde, they were skaven, they were cringing beasts driven by fear and greed, incapable of believing in anything more vital than their own skins. Terror and avarice were the forces that drove them on, but such things could only stretch so far, overcome only so much. Mandred’s troops could endure more than Vrrmik’s monsters. That was the one strength the skaven could never equal.
— C.L. Werner, Wolf of Sigmar
But the same spirits of analogy will authorise me to assert that ours are the most tender. Man is more robust than woman, but he is not longer-lived; which exactly explains my view of the nature of their attachment. Nay, it would be too hard upon you, if it were otherwise. You have difficulties, and privations, and dangers enough to struggle with... It would be too hard indeed (with a faltering voice) if woman's feelings were to be added to all this!
— Jane Austen, Persuasion
Guys, you should always fight the urge to put your mouth in gear before taking your brain out of park.
— Dennis  James, THE MAN FIX: The Stuff MEN SHOULD ADMIT And WOMEN SHOULD KNOW
Never bet anything on men’s stupidity and on women’s virginity; the former believe they aren’t, while the latter believe they might be.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
While the gods remained more human, the men were more divine.
— Friedrich Schiller
Why is it honesty when a man speaks his mind and madness when a woman does?
— Sharon Kay Penman, When Christ and His Saints Slept
There is a certain kind of stupidity reserved for women's dealings with men.
— Françoise Sagan, Dans un mois, dans un an
There are worse things than being thirty-five, single, and female in New York. Like: Being twenty-five, singled, and female in New York. It's a rite of passage few women would want to repeat. It's about sleeping with the wrong men, wearing the wrong clothes, having the wrong roommate, saying the wrong thing, being ignored, getting fired, not being taken seriously, and generally being treated like shit. But it's necessary.
— Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City
He had made his decision. Later in life Ann would learn that when certain men made decisions no matter how much it might torture them afterwards they would stick with their decision. Men, she learned, would rather suffer than change their minds or their habits. They could develop elaborate systems for containing pain, sometimes so successful they would remain completely unaware of the vastness of the pain they possessed.
— Susan Minot, Evening
Both spouses are equal, yet different. One of the most beautiful things about a relationship is that the feminine energy can feed a masculine man’s heart. And, the masculine energy can totally light up the feminine energy.
— Renee Wade
I see why our little Braith likes you.”“Does she?”“Can’t you tell?”“I’m male. I have no idea what you females are thinking.
— G.A. Aiken, A Tale of Two Dragons
If only men came made to order. It's so hard to find a decent fellow.
— Adriana Trigiani, Lucia, Lucia
As far as I can tell, kids are called bossy when they behave in a dictatorial and domineering fashion. They’re called bossy when they try to order people around and refuse to listen to authority figures. Here’s a suggestion: instead of telling us not to refer to them as bossy, why don’t we teach them not to be bossy? We concentrate so much on eradicating negative words while forgetting to address the behavior that the words describe.
— Matt Walsh
Sooner or later, all men will do and know all things.
— Richard Powers, Orfeo
Bossy means “given to ordering people around, highhanded, domineering, overly authoritative, dictatorial, abrasive.” ...Could it be that girls are called bossy when they’re… well, bossy? Could it be that boys are also called bossy for the same reason?
— Matt Walsh
He was the kind of man you didn’t notice at first…but then found yourself staring. There was something…something she’d never been able to put her finger on…that inspired a double, triple, quadruple look. He was forever lurking in corners with a cigarette, and seemed to draw her eyes anyway. She didn’t know if she liked him, wasn’t sure if she trusted him, and definitely was afraid – a little bit – of his eyes.
— Lauren Gilley, God Love Her
Women worry about the things that men forget
—  Men worry about the things that women remember.
men are comfortable around strange women, but women are rarely comfortable around strange men.
— Christina Escamilla, 64 Deaths
As with most dreams of men, the ideal becomes just that––an ideal––and the pure rationale of existence is thrust upon the best of the dreamers.
— Katlyn Charlesworth, Where Men Sit
The reason why we are all different is to allow us to
—  to keep learning about each other so we can keep working with each other and live with one another.
Oh, I am so sick of the young men of the present day!” exclaimed she, rattling away at the instrument. “Poor, puny things, not fit to stir a step beyond papa’s park gates: nor to go even so far without mama’s permission and guardianship! Creatures so absorbed in care about their pretty faces, and their white hands, and their small feet; as if a man had anything to do with beauty! As if loveliness were not the special prerogative of woman—her legitimate appanage and heritage! I grant an ugly woman is a blot on the fair face of creation; but as to the gentlemen, let them be solicitous to possess only strength and valour: let their motto be:—Hunt, shoot, and fight: the rest is not worth a fillip. Such should be my device, were I a man.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
The only reason nice guys finish last is because they think they’ll finish last. You don’t win the race by walking around the starting line saying ‘I’m not going to win this race’.
— Mitch Rowland, Eternity's Reach
The source to low self-esteem is the lack of control you feel you have in your life. If you spend your life competing with others, trying to make right the wrongs done to you, or waste your time trying to look right, you will never achieve contentment and emotional balance. People you encounter in life can’t be controlled by you. You only have control of yourself. Build your life around a relationship with a higher power and achieving what you’re passionate about. When you let go of what you can’t control, true peace can then enter your life. This is the path to achieving emotional balance.
— Shannon L. Alder
It would take entire lifetimes for the men of Carthya to deserve their women.
— Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Shadow Throne
So...Now that we got that over with, let's get back to love at first sight, Evan said. Not infatuation at first sight...Love. With a capital L, he clarified.Love? Heeb asked, playfully pretending not to know the concept.Yeah. The real thing. The conviction that if you had this one woman, all other women would become irrelevant. You'd never again be unhappy And you'd give up anything to have her and keep her.You've experienced that?Only once. And I haven't stopped thinking about it ever since.Tell me more.Sometimes I think that I still chase women just to forget about her. Because I know I can never have her. But I can't seem to forget about her, no matter what girl I'm chasing...No one can possibly compare....Who is she?Delilah, Evan said wistfully.Delilah?, asked Heeb, intriguedDelilah Nakova, Evan replied, with a hint of awe and reverence in his voice.
— Zack Love, Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC
Men in our culture have been spoiled, treated with false reverence instead of respect.
— Marianne Williamson, A Woman's Worth
Do you see a theme emerging? Women like flowers
—  men like food!
Don't you think, that there are very few men who know, without raising their voice or changing their tone, to say...what has to be said?
— Colette
Men got two guns, you know. One for now," he tapped the barrel of his gun against her nose. "And one for later." When his free hand went to his zipper, she twisted underneath him, bringing her knee into his groin and pulling her knife from her boot."Mother taught me to carry a knife for always."She left him holding his intestines in disbelief as she disappeared down the hill, his gun tucked securely in her waistband.
— Mindy McGinnis, Not a Drop to Drink
Leaders are hard workers. They never expect more out of the people around them than they are willing to give themselves.
— Jim George, A Leader After God's Own Heart: 15 Ways to Lead with Strength
A woman needs a man, more than a man needs a woman. We can thank prostitutes for that.
— Robert  Black
I conquered outer worlds just as he had. I expressed masculine strength and power just as he had. But it didn't bring me closer to him or to others like him because I had become one of the guys, and that's not what most men are looking for. He had never loved me for being a great guy.
— Marianne Williamson, A Woman's Worth
Topics... are what people talk about when they don't know each other well. Topics... are what men talk about.
— Patricia Gaffney, The Saving Graces
Believe me, my boy, women don't love a man for himself but as a weapon against other women.
— Irène Némirovsky, The Wine of Solitude
Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anyway.
— Lady Gaga
Mr. Rip Wan winkle, be a star that twinkle.
— Aporva Kala, Life... Love... Kumbh...
Many men beg for a job but have no clue what hard work really means.
— Bill Courtney, Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love
Most of what you do to fulfill God’s purposes will require acts of faith.
— Jim George
Most fellas like the races, though, Miss. It’s only human nature
— Sara Sheridan, Brighton Belle
When human men hold an object that makes a powerful noise, or has moving parts, or spins around fast, or has a button they can push (which either screws or nails something) they become Gods in their own heads.They can do anything: they can eat through walls and bring buildings together to form mighty empires.They can build floating cities and flying tin cans.But they still can’t make their own beds.
— Craig  Stone, How to Hide from Humans
Indeed you have what it takes to care like a mare, but can misters br one?
— Aporva Kala, Life... Love... Kumbh...
But why give a man something it's so hard to earn? In that respect women are really thick. They're the daughters of rigidity. They need a man to feel secure but they don't realize that the one thing they should be afraid of is men. They don't know how to run their lives. They have to sacrifice themselves for the sake of someone else. Whores are the worst, patron, believe me. They throw their lives away working for some pimp, smile when he beats them, feel proud when he's well dressed, with his gold teeth and rings on his fingers, and when he goes off and takes up with a woman half their age they forgive him everything because 'he's a man.
— Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging
—  men buy fast cars.
To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Not only does depression take away our spiritual and emotional health, it also undermines our physical health.
— Jed Diamond, Stress Relief for Men: How to Use the Revolutionary Tools of Energy Healing to Live Well
Here's how it works. Your immune system protects you from all kinds of nasty bugs and helps repair tissue that has been damaged by injury or surgery. When a problem develops somewhere, your body does the equivalent of calling 911. The alarm sounds, and the immune system springs into action. The first responders, the white blood cells, travel to the site of the problem. As weapons, some of the cells released a shower of powerful free radicals (called an oxidative burst) that aids in the destruction of invading microorganisms and damaged tissue.
— Jed Diamond, Stress Relief for Men: How to Use the Revolutionary Tools of Energy Healing to Live Well
When our hearts are in a state of coherence, we more easily experience feelings such as love, care, appreciation, and kindness. On the other hand, feelings such as irritation, anger, hurt, and envy are more likely to occur when the head and heart are out of alignment.
— Jed Diamond, Stress Relief for Men: How to Use the Revolutionary Tools of Energy Healing to Live Well
Research shows that sincere positive feelings--like love, care, gratitude, appreciation, compassion, or joy--smooth out our heart rhythm into a harmonious coherent pattern.
— Jed Diamond, Stress Relief for Men: How to Use the Revolutionary Tools of Energy Healing to Live Well
See yourself as a pioneer in a new world. We are not facing the end of the world, as some would have us believe, but the greatest adventure of our lives. We have the unique opportunity to write a new chapter in the history of humankind, to be active participants in shaping a new world.
— Jed Diamond, Stress Relief for Men: How to Use the Revolutionary Tools of Energy Healing to Live Well
You have the power to treat your own pain, and you can do it without surgery, drugs, or other invasive interventions.
— Jed Diamond, Stress Relief for Men: How to Use the Revolutionary Tools of Energy Healing to Live Well
Chronic pain shatters productive lives. Chronic pain almost always is accompanied by depression, anxiety, frustration, fatigue, isolation, and lowered self-esteem.
— Jed Diamond, Stress Relief for Men: How to Use the Revolutionary Tools of Energy Healing to Live Well
We are not designed to deal with the many stress-inducing situations of the twenty-first century. For most of human history, the stressors we faced were mainly physical, like running away from wild animals. Now they are almost entirely psychological. When was the last time you were frightened by a lion? The things that cause us stress in our modern world are the ones that go inside our heads.
— Jed Diamond, Stress Relief for Men: How to Use the Revolutionary Tools of Energy Healing to Live Well
As psychologist Herb Goldberg reminds us in his book The Hazards of Being Male, 'The male has paid a heavy price for his masculine "privilege" and power.... He is out of touch with his emotions and his body. He is playing by the rules of the male game plan and with lemming-like purpose he is destroying himself--emotionally, psychologically, and physically.
— Jed Diamond, Stress Relief for Men: How to Use the Revolutionary Tools of Energy Healing to Live Well
The physical body itself is continually vibrating and resonating with other energies in the environment. While Western medicine has developed few interventions that are based in the recognition that energy is at the foundation of, or at least intimately intertwined with, physical matter, scientists from many other disciplines are working within this perspective. They are, for example, recognizing the potential explanatory power of fields that are 'totally unlike any of those presently known' in the ways they hold and transmit information, display quantum properties such as nonlocal influence, and interact with consciousness.
— Jed Diamond, Stress Relief for Men: How to Use the Revolutionary Tools of Energy Healing to Live Well
This was the first time I noticed it, the inevitable space between father and man.
— Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
Middle age is such a low point for well-being
—  it's at the bottom of a U-shaped curve that shows greater happiness among the younger and older people.
In an age of rampant chronic disease, reconnecting with the Earth's energy beneath our very feet may provide a way back to better health and keeping our bodies in top condition throughout our lives.
— Jed Diamond
Many of us have been burned by love and vowed to keep ourselves safe and not get pulled in again. But, inevitably, we do. Then we vow that this time, it's going to be different. This time, we're not going to make the same mistakes. And things seem wonderful--for a while. But more often than not, the same problems come up over and over.
— Jed Diamond, Stress Relief for Men: How to Use the Revolutionary Tools of Energy Healing to Live Well
Anxiety is a state of apprehension, uncertainty, and fear resulting from the anticipation of a realistic or fantasized threatening event or situation. Often, men will appear confident and self-assured to others but actually be living with a great deal of worry and fear.
— Jed Diamond, Stress Relief for Men: How to Use the Revolutionary Tools of Energy Healing to Live Well
Anger is the only emotion many men allow themselves to express. Growing up, we are taught to avoid anything that is seen as the least bit feminine. We are taught that men 'do' while women 'feel.' We learn to keep all emotions under wraps, to see them as unmanly. We cannot show we are hurt, afraid, worried, or panicked. The feeling we are allowed to express without being called feminine is anger. When men experience IMS, anger is often the primary emotion.
— Jed Diamond, Stress Relief for Men: How to Use the Revolutionary Tools of Energy Healing to Live Well
Our new understanding of energy, and hence energy healing, is full of ideas that seem strange and contradictory. The ability to understand that two competing concepts can exist at the same time is the key to being able to derive benefits from the new understanding of energy and the new science of energy healing. In the Newtonian world, matter and energy are separate and therefore don't influence each other. In the world of Einstein, they are intertwined and offer wonderful new possibilities that can benefit us all. But it is a world that many people have a hard time accepting.
— Jed Diamond, Stress Relief for Men: How to Use the Revolutionary Tools of Energy Healing to Live Well
In my experience as a psychotherapist, I have found that stress underlies most of the psychological, social, and medical problems people face in contemporary society. If we can get a handle on stress, we can take care of most of the problems we face in our lives.
— Jed Diamond, Stress Relief for Men: How to Use the Revolutionary Tools of Energy Healing to Live Well
Men have a higher death rate than women for nine out of ten leading causes of death: heart disease, cancer, injuries, cerebrovascular disease, chronic lower respiratory disease, diabetes, pneumonia and flu, HIV infection, suicide, and homicide. We all die of something, but if you're a guy, you are more likely to get a serious disease and die from it than are women.
— Jed Diamond, Stress Relief for Men: How to Use the Revolutionary Tools of Energy Healing to Live Well
Energy healing is based on the supposition that illness results from disturbances in the body's energies and energy fields and can be addressed via interventions into those energies and energy fields.
— Jed Diamond, Stress Relief for Men: How to Use the Revolutionary Tools of Energy Healing to Live Well
Some clinicians and researchers believe that andropause is primarily the result of our loss of testosterone. It is clear to me that it is much more than that. Andropause is a multidimensional change of life with hormonal, physical, psychological, interpersonal, social, sexual, and spiritual aspects.
— Jed Diamond, Stress Relief for Men: How to Use the Revolutionary Tools of Energy Healing to Live Well
The impact of human intention on physical systems within as well as outside the body has been scientifically demonstrated and reveals a shortcoming of the conventional medical paradigm and highlights a strength of the energy medicine paradigm.
— Jed Diamond, Stress Relief for Men: How to Use the Revolutionary Tools of Energy Healing to Live Well
It is possible the world is divided into three genders - there are men, there are women and then there are women who choose to have nothing to do with children. How about men without children, he answered quickly, aren't they also different from fathers? She shook her head firmly, daring him to contradict her: no, all men are the same.
— Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap
Men are sometimes driven by things that to a women make no sense, but she did know that Corelli had to be with his boys. Honour and common sense; in the light of the other, both of them are ridiculous.
— Louis de Bernières, Corelli's Mandolin
It is generally recognized that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multitasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics. It is not politically correct to say such things....But it cannot be denied that there are differences between men and women. Of course, these are differences between the averages only. There are wide variations about the mean.
— Stephen Hawking
A fast car can make women 'like' a man
—  and a man 'like' women … fast.
Goals doesn't leave you like men, goals wait, they wait for their achievers.
— Amit Kalantri
Finding a proper husband is rather like selecting a hound. They all have more bark than bite, my girl. One day you'll look across the breakfast table and realize the only option is obedience training. -Grandmamma Holmes
— Emma Jane Holloway, A Study in Silks
All civilized wo/men are prostitutes: Some sell what's between their legs
—  the rest sell what's between their ears.
they say that girls are the ones who want fairy tail endings, but then again, who are the authors of fairy tales? mostly men...
— Alina Radoi
With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How many men resemble the nettle!" He added with a pause: "Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Women are suspicious. Men are devious. Infinite loop.
— Saleem Sharma
Bloodchild" is my pregnant man story.
— Octavia E. Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories
I do not know anything about ‘all the good guys are taken’ but I certainly know none of the beautiful girls are virgin.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Unfortunately Women these days, complain A LOT about "wanting" to be equal to men, and insist that they "are" equal to men. However, when it comes to paying the check at the restaurant, paying for the wedding, or handling any other expenses, suddenly they forget the whole equality phenomenon. If you ask women why, they will just tell you that "I was with a MAN, a real man doesn't let a woman touch her purse, a real man takes care of his lady"... ((So they know the difference between a "Man" and a "Woman"... ))- Man spends, man takes responsibility, man has control...- Woman gets taken care of, women expects man to take responsibility, woman is under control!If you are a woman who "WANTS" to be equal to men, if you are a woman who wants to be "IN CONTROL" rather than being "UNDER CONTROL", start by being equal in doing the hard things first, don't let your boyfriend pay when you go out with him for a year or two, just like he did for you, don't let him pick you up at your home, drive everyday and pick him up to go out for a year or two, if you think it's so hard to do so, keep quite about it... you're not ready to be equal... You're just adequate enough to be taken care of... to be spent for...
— Hamidreza Bagheri
There are no big men and big women. There are small people with big dreams and extra larger passion!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few.
— Brian K. Vaughan
Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you. 
— George R.R. Martin
t is generally recognized that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multitasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics. It is not politically correct to say such things....But it cannot be denied that there are differences between men and women. Of course, these are differences between the averages only. There are wide variations about the mean.
— Stephen Hawking
A man is virgin if he says so.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
His emotions are not for men, they are for his vision.
— Amit Kalantri
As for the young men whose company I keep (Why does it keep sounding likethat?), I try to teach them that every young lady is somebody’s sister or daughter with the potential to be somebody’s wife and mother. I ask them, “Would you wantsomebody treating your(sister/daughter/wife/mother) that way?” The response invariably comes, “No.” To which I respond that we should keep in mind that every girl is somebody’s baby.
— Aaron Blaylock, It's Called Helping...You're Welcome
...the word “fine”. As in “I’m fine”, “it’s fine”, “that looks fine”, etc. For a man the word fine has, tops, three or four meanings and that’s only because of the fairly recent edition of “Dang, girl! You look fine!” Otherwise “fine” would range somewhere between satisfactory and of superior quality. For a woman the word “fine” has like seventy meanings and depending on voice inflexion can actually mean ‘If I’m questioned again I’ll stab you in your sleep’.
— Aaron Blaylock, It's Called Helping...You're Welcome
Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
— Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor
Men? One never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
When a man has a flower in his life he builds a house.
— Halldór Laxness, Independent People
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
— Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor
Let's put it like this; men like Berkley, like me, we don't get a no for an answer, a girl who says no is like a... like a unicorn, and we all want to **** the unicorn!
— C.S.  James, Blue Ice
Ah, men losing the power in their dicks. When they can no longer f___ their women, they f___ the world.
— Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies
The modern man needs to catch on to the fact that women want to be treated as equals, but only when it suits us. the modern woman's fierce need for independence doesn't mean we want to pay for our half of a meal, or that we don't want a man to hold a door open for us. We still want to be looked after, but on our terms.
— Jodi Ellen Malpas, This Man
A man without enemies is a dishonest man.
— Daniel J. Rice, This Side of a Wilderness
All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.
— Charles Stross, Glasshouse
The men had scattered in all directions, which men are inclined to do when women leave them to their own devices for any length of time. I believe they are easily bored.
— Elizabeth Peters, A River in the Sky
I'm impressed when men go the distance to show they give a damn. That says nothing about the woman and everything about the man.
— Donna Lynn Hope
She smiled at him as they waited for their dessert, her chin poised on her clasped hands.'You're being very silent.''That's how men cry.
— John Fowles, Daniel Martin
I mean, a male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
God sure hadn't done His menfolk any favors when He's made women such a puzzlement.
— Regina Jennings, A Match Made in Texas
Emerson has what I believe is called a selective memory. He can recall minute details of particular excavations but is likely to forget where he left his hat.
— Elizabeth Peters, A River in the Sky
Men like to create unnecessary organizations and give them impressive or mysterious names; this usually ends in increased confusion, and should therefore be ignored.
— Elizabeth Peters, A River in the Sky
To be a full-blooded hillbilly was to be a living koan. Half of you wanted to be dignified and half of you couldn’t tolerate any restraint. You could see it in the regional art and hear it in the music. Wood carving with chainsaws. Cloggers who danced up a storm with the lower half of their bodies, but held the upper half perfectly still and stared off into the distance stone-faced. Or a group of bluegrass musicians who’d be playing the most raucous tunes imaginable, looking around at each other with bemused expressions that seemed to say where’s all that racket comin from?Phoebe believed that nearly all the adult males everywhere were pretty much the same way. Most of them could manage to keep the top half of themselves under a semblance of control, but the bottom half tended to run wild. As she continued to descend the trail she couldn’t help but think that most men were mentally ill below the waist.
— Carolyn Jourdan, Out on a Limb: A Smoky Mountain Mystery
I'd rather know a man's sincerity than his love. Whereas I have never needed the latter, one can always count on the former.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Lady Astor was also said to have responded to a question from Churchill about what disguise he should wear to a masquerade ball by saying, "Why don't you come sober, Prime Minister?"(Reported exchange with Winston Churchill)
— Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor
If asked for an opinion we’ll say what we think. And by “what we think” I mean the answer that comes to our mind first, seems most logical and requires the least amount of effort to articulate, while getting us in the least amount of trouble. Really that’s what our communication boils down to.
— Aaron Blaylock
He disliked tears, he has always disliked tears, had never understood them, and sometimes lost his temper over them; but he felt now that he could not rebuke this flower of his life, this innocent form, water and youth are inseparable companions, and besides it's Christmas night. So he merely hinted again that she must have forgotten again that he had promised to build her a house.
— Halldór Laxness, Independent People
Manny has swung with many men, but many men never seen Manny's blissful swing.
— Anthony Liccione
A good leader will seek the wisdom of others. After all, no man is an island!
— Jim George, A Leader After God's Own Heart: 15 Ways to Lead with Strength
The amount of time we give to something indicates it's importance to us.
— Jim George, A Young Man After God's Own Heart
We build up pretty pictures of men, when we want to be in love. We hate to have them ruined.
— Tamora Pierce, Trickster's Choice
He stood for twenty minutes in the bedding aisle at Target, trying to choose a manly sheet set, then picked the ones with a violet pattern, because he liked violets and who else was ever going to see his sheets, anyway?
— Rainbow Rowell, Attachments