#ric

The most difficult challenge an honest man will ever face is having to choose between duty and love. One creates a man of honorable character; a life worth dying for. The other creates a vulnerable soul that madly yearns for either death or immortality. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#commitment #duty #eena #honor #love

You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions. ↗

— Karen Blixen

#africa #life #life

The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it. ↗

— M.C. Halliday

#historical #memoir #life

Princes always are always happy to see developing among their subjects the taste for agreeable arts and for superfluities which do not result in the export of money. For quite apart from the fact that with these they nourish that spiritual pettiness so appropriate for servitude, they know very well that all the needs which people give themselves are so many chains binding them. When Alexander wished to keep the Ichthyophagi dependent on him, he forced them to abandon fishing and to nourish themselves on foods common to other people. And no one has been able to subjugate the savages in America, who go around quite naked and live only from what their hunting provides. In fact, what yoke could be imposed on men who have no need of anything? ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#america #rulers #art

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#feel #fiction #i #i feel #input

He felt like home. ↗

— JoAnne Kenrick

#joanne-kenrick #magic #memories #monterey #mullo

Isn't allowing people a choice what America is all about? ↗

— John Stossel

#allowing #america #choice #people

Life is learning to take God's hand.....and hold on. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#god #god-s-will #hope #learning #life

You will realize one day that all the money in the world cannot buy you happiness. Nor can it make you a person of good character.  ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#learning #life-lessons #money #richelle #richelle-goodrich

She had wanted more than she could have. She had wanted him, and more... she had wanted him to want her. In the name of something bigger than tradition, bolder than reputation, more important than a silly title. ↗

— Sarah MacLean

#love-heartache #romance #love