#ss

The harder I worked, the luckier I got. ↗

— Jim Treliving

#inspirational #success #work #inspirational

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity. ↗

— C.L.R. James

#history #masses #men

Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying ‘renew yourselves’ from day to day. This is what we do with houses: we keep constantly repairing them as they wear old. You should do the same thing to yourself. Have you sinned today? Have you made your soul old? Do not despair, do not despond, but renew your soul by repentance, and tears, and Confession, and by doing good things. And never cease doing this. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#confession #sin #men

Do you inquire why, holding these views and possessing some will of my own, i accept so imperfect a proposition? I answer, because I live among men and not among angels. ↗

— Thaddeus Stevens

#men

It is supremely appealing to men to see a woman content with herself. We long to slip inside her and join her. ↗

— Sylivia Day

#lord-ware #men

For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, ‘I am doing God's will on earth.’ All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#life-purpose #work #men

I guess it's nice to know I still resonate in people's minds. ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#i #know #minds #nice #people

I pulled him close. “You can try your best. The only problem is after this is all over with reality is going to be waiting for me.” He took my shirt off and tossed it over his shoulder pulling me down on the couch. He kissed me again, biting at my lip. “Ignorance is bliss. ↗

— Holly Hood

#passion #sexy-men #men

In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her whole song of sorrow just for me. I helped her put me to sleep, so to speak, and succeeded pretty well... I wasn't entirely alone... It's not possible to sleep alone... ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

#aloneness #sleep #movies

To those who rejected Him, righteousness would one day appear as a terrible justice; to the sinful men who accepted Him and allied themselves to His life, righteousness would show itself as mercy. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#pharisees #righteousness #sin #the-cross #men