#nest

Monsieur Josserand died very quietly - a victim of his own honesty. He had lived a useless life, and he went off, worthy to the last, weary of all the petty things in life, done to death by the heartless conduct of the only human beings that he had ever loved. ↗

— Émile Zola

#failure #honesty #death

Moreover, grandmothers of students who aren't doing so well in class are at even higher risk - students who are failing are fifty times more likely to lose a grandmother compared with non-failing students. In a paper exploring this sad connection, Adam speculates that the phenomenon is due to intrafamilial dynamics, which is to say, students' grandmothers care so much about their grandchildren that they worry themselves to death over the outcome of exams. ↗

— Dan Ariely

#dishonesty #funny #lying #death

... you’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#first-love #france #love #love-at-first-sight #love-story

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#expectations #gender #honesty #independence #influence

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection. ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#concupiscence #dignity #fortune #greed #honesty

I lay my head on his chest and listen to his heart beating, solid and sure.....he reads me so well. He's known about my emotional empathy since we were children. Nothing disturbs him...Few can lie to me... I don't know the truth, only that there is a lie. It takes a scrupulously honest man to love me. That's my Sean. We learned to trust each other completely before we were old enough to have learned suspicion. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#romance #truth-inspirational #inspirational

The less you look to others, the more you find in yourself. What have you found in yourself. ↗

— Ron W. Rathbun

#honesty #inspirational #life #the-mind-and-self-relfection #inspirational

My life's an open book. Some of the pages are a little ripped, but it's open. ↗

— Ethan from "The Thunder in Heaven"

#inspirational #life #loss #inspirational

When you walk a life of honesty, you live a life of truth. ↗

— Therese Benedict

#inspiration #love #relationships #sprituality #inspirational

If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else ↗