#sparks

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#avarice #envy #fire #hearts #pride

When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad. ↗

— Jeanne DuPrau

#books-of-ember #city-of-ember #goodness #jeanne-duprau #lina

I doona need drugs. I am naturally a mean bastard. ↗

— Kerrelyn Sparks

#kerrelyn-sparks #love-at-stake #love

Oh,Angus, where's the beef? ↗

— Kerrelyn Sparks

#love-at-stake #love

As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished , or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence. ↗

— Edward Forbes

#approach #become #deeper #descend #either

There was a lot about Kim and J.P. he didn't get.... he was confused by their lack of romance. As a father, he was at times grateful for that missing intensity, but as a man who liked to surprise his wife with flowers, it baffled him. Maybe he was old-fashioned, but to him a couple meant a strong bond, with positive and negative charges constantly arcing between them. He'd never seen Kim and J.P. kiss, let alone argue. ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#couples #intensity #love #passion #romance

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#attributes #comes #elation #halo #her

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#beings #come #creator #even #fire

I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#between #border #chipping #come #cultures

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. ↗

— Golda Meir

#achievement #be happy #create #fanning #flames