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Daring enthusiasm And abiding cheerfulness Can accomplish everything on earth Without fail. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#enthusiasm #inspirational #motivational #inspirational

He should in humility have asked her why it was that he was naturally a cuckold, why two women of different temperaments and characters had been inspired to have lovers at his expense. He should be telling her, with the warmth of her body warming his, that his second wife had confessed to greater sexual pleasure when she remembered that she was deceiving him. ↗

— William Trevor

#cheating #marriage #men #relationships #women

We would never call inexplicable little insights 'hunches,' for fear of drawing the universe's attention. But they happened, and you knew you had been in the proximity of one that had come through if you saw a detective kiss his or her fingers and touch his or her chest where a pendant to Warsha, patron saint of inexplicable inspirations, would, theoretically, hang. ↗

— China Miéville

#hunches #inspiration #saints #inspirational

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#essays #great-men #greatness #men

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’. ↗

— Epictetus

#philosophy #sayings #talk-is-cheap #thought-provoking #wisdom

An ethics of desire is good news for those of us who have become allergic to an ethics of law. ↗

— Jean Vanier

#inspirational #l-arche #inspirational

When you come to a fork in the road, be still, and see with your mind's eye. There you find the clarity you seek. ↗

— Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#motivational-inspirational #inspirational

He knew that if Michelle entered into the walls of the Vatican, she’d corrupt every single clergyman within, causing them to forsake their vows in trade for a few moments with her. With one glance men would happily follow her to the bowels of hell and swim across the lake of fire to get to her. ↗

— Travis Luedke

#michelle #seduction #sensuality #men

Witches never existed, except in people’s minds. All there was in the olden days was women and some men who believed in herbal cures and in folklore and in the wish to fly. Witches? We’re all witches in one way or another. Witches was the invention of mankind, son. We’re all witches beneath the skin. ↗

— Ian Rankin

#witches #men

Only the lame could love and only the maimed could mourn ↗

— Kate Forsyth

#love #the-pool-of-two-moons #witches-of-eileanan #inspirational