#admiration

I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either. ↗

— Donald Miller

#love #unrequited-love #experience

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#decays #familiar #growing #immediately #object

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. ↗

— John Adams

#birds #children #converse #domestic #heroes

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#contempt #i #i wonder #motivation #ought

When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror. ↗

— Thomas Day

#benevolent #contemplates #degree #horror #mind

I like your hair down." He twisted his fingers through the curls. My eyes drifted shut as I relaxed next to him. "It's a mess. I need to get a haircut." Hayden's fingers stilled. "No. You shouldn't cut your hair. It's beautiful." I would never cut my hair. Ever. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#cute #beauty

The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more commonly so, detested for disturbing the daily peace of mind. ↗

— Criss Jami

#challenge #challenger #changes #controversy #creativity

Reality is, Hope and Despair lie in the same places. And they're just a matter of perspective. What changed my perspective, was her. ↗

— Richie Singh

#compliment #hope #inspirational #love #perspective

Peabody, you never cease to amaze me." "One day I'll tell you about my granny and her five lovers." "Five lovers isn't abnormal for a woman's lifetime." "Not in her lifetime; last month. All at the same time." Peabody glanced up, deadpan. "She's ninety-eight. I hope to take after her. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#grandmother #lovers #death

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#admire #clothes #clothing #delight #delightful