#leg

To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance. ↗

— Criss Jami

#envious #envy #excellence #greatness #jealous

The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified. ↗

— Oliver DeMille

#ingenuity #leadership #leadership

An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms. ↗

— Salvador Dalí

#women #life

I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life. ↗

— Dodie Smith

#life #write #life

Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and desires expressed for others to hear, to see and to understand. We all want to matter to someone, to leave a mark. Writers just take those thoughts, feelings and desires and express them in such a way that the reader not only reads them but feels them as well. ↗

— Vicktor Alexander

#expression #feelings #legacy #life #writers

I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry. ↗

— Philip Yancey

#c-s-lewis #life-s-catastrophes #life

Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful ↗

— Michael Moorcock

#legends #life #life

I can't take anything you don't give me. Stop giving me power over your life. ↗

— Chelsea M. Cameron

#contempory #new-adult #romance #life

Only the passionate were immortal, it seemed. If you fought, screwed, screamed, laughed, or otherwise experienced life intensely, for better or worse, you left a record. Those who lived a quiet, well-behaved, well-tempered life? Gone without a trace. ↗

— Magnus Flyte

#life #passionate-life #life

A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays—when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren? ↗

— George Orwell

#legacy #plants #posterity #walnut #life