#sir

The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy. ↗

— Rumi

#intelligence #self-control #intelligence

No matter how strong our resolve, we eventually find ourselves enslaved by the compulsive preference for one particular woman. You’ve been caught, my friend. You may as well reconcile yourself to it.” Nick did not bother trying to deny it. “I was going to be so much smarter than you,” he muttered. Sir Ross grinned. “I prefer to think that intelligence has nothing to do with it. For if a man’s intellect is measured by his ability to remain untouched by love, I would be the greatest idiot alive. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#nick-gentry #romance #sir-cannon #intelligence

Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more anxious! ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#desire #fear #jealousy #longing #love

what was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that did well in arid souls. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#jealousy #rose #jealousy

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire. ↗

— Willa Cather

#life

— you don’t understand — there are things worth dying for! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#sirius-black #life

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are (p. 331). ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#life #self #want #life

We all want to be the best at something. Trouble is, some people are only the best at being second best.
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— Jarod Kintz

#better #competition #desire #life #lose

There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted. ↗

— François de La Rochefoucauld

#life #life

My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep, and I could not help doing these things; but there was no life, for there were no wishes the fulfilment of which I could consider reasonable. If I desired anything, I knew in advance that whether I satisfied my desire or not, nothing would come of it. Had a fairy come and offered to fulfil my desires I should not have known what to ask. If in moments of intoxication I felt something which, though not a wish, was a habit left by former wishes, in sober moments I knew this to be a delusion and that there was really nothing to wish for. I could not even wish to know the truth, for I guess of what it consisted. The truth was that life is meaningless. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#desire #inspirational-quotes #meaning #truth #inspirational