#ratio

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#infatuation #love #obsession #love

Each day begins a new journey of life, for if we awake, there is a reason. ↗

— Bethanie Armstrong

#inspiration #life #inspirational

Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#inspirational

If you listen quietly enough life will whisper its secrets to you ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#life #life-lessons-lessons #rasheed-ogunlaru #secrets-of-the-universe #secrets-to-happiness

I thought maybe if she could express herself rather than suffer herself, if she had a way to relieve the burden, she lived for nothing more than living, with nothing to get inspired by, to care for, to call her own, she helped out at the store, then came home and sat in her big chair and stared at her magazines, not at them but through them, she let the dust accumulate on her shoulders. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#living #inspirational

When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don't want to know. ↗

— Ben Aaronovitch

#intergenerational-relations #life

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#attention #been #complaint #confine #consideration

The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive. ↗

— Hazrat Ali ibn Abu-Talib

#inspirational

Purpose gives rise to discipline, restraint, and self-control, which are crucial, fundamental tools for success in the journey of life. ↗

— Pedro Okoro

#inspirational

In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean of learning that awaited, knowing all the time that the life of one man was insufficient for even the smallest part of the wonders that lay within. It is cruel that we are granted the desire to know, but denied the time to do so properly. We all die frustrated; it is the greatest lesson we have to learn. ↗

— Iain Pears

#insufficiency #knowledge #learning #life-lessons #wonder