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There are two things to be aware of if the fight against evil inclinations is to have any chance of success. First, our efforts will never be sufficient on their own. Only the grace of Christ can win us the victory. Therefore our chief weapons are prayer, patience, and hope. Second, one passion can only be cured by another - a misplaced love by a greater love, wrong behavior by right behavior that makes provisions for the desire underlying the wrongdoing, recognizes the conscious or unconscious needs that seek fulfillment and either offers them legitimate satisfaction or transfers them to something compatible with the person's calling. ↗


— Jacques Philippe


#temptations #freedom

There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform. ↗


— Xenophon


#best #contempt #general #himself #leads

The majority enjoy a young girl as they enjoy a glass of champagne, at one effervescent moment-oh, yes, that is really beautiful, and with many a young girl that is undoubtedly the most one can attain, but here there is more. If an individual is too fragile to stand clarity and transparency, well, then one enjoys what is unclear, but apparently she can stand it. The more devotedness one can bring to erotic love, the more interesting. This momentary enjoyment is a rape, even if not outwardly but nevertheless mentally, and in a rape there is only imagined enjoyment; it is like a stolen kiss, something nondescript. No, if one can bring it to a point where a girl has but one task for her freedom, to give herself, so that she feels her whole happiness in this, so that she practically begs for this devotedness and yet is free-only then is there enjoyment, but this always takes a discerning touch ↗


— Søren Kierkegaard


#love #passion #seduction #temptation #the-seducer-s-diary

Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't. ↗


— Steve Maraboli


#inspirational #life #opportunity-temptation #temptation #inspirational

Oh, God, I would give anything to change the past,” he gasped. “To make it so that the last thing you saw was not me walking away from you. In your memories I am forever one and twenty, and cocky, and sneering, and looking self-righteous. And I’ve changed, Beth,” he gasped, choking on a sob he could not hide. “I want so damn much for you to see how I’ve changed. To see me now. There are no lies in my eyes. No motives other than to show you that I am not the callous man I was. And that I love you…. I love you so damn much.” He was crying. The tears trickled unchecked down his cheeks, dripping onto his lips. She touched them, wiped them away, which only caused them to spill faster and harder. ↗


— Charlotte Featherstone


#iain #temptation-and-twilight #change

It was a Friday night, she was at a club, and a good-looking man was currently giving her the I-want-to-take-you-home-and-I-hope-I-last-longer-than-five-minutes look… and she was thinking about pie, a young adult book, and feeding her cat. She was so turning into the cat lady at twenty-seven. Sweet. ↗


— J. Lynn


#jennifer-l-armentrout #tempting-the-player #young-adult

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?' ↗


— Sydney J. Harris


#always #am #ask #compared #hard

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. ↗


— Henry Bolingbroke


#contempt #defeats #end #esteem #into

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. ↗


— Louis D. Brandeis


#anarchy #become #becomes #breeds #contempt

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist. ↗


— Andre Breton


#appeals #attempts #examples #exist #making






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