#vice

Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today. ↗

— James Dean

#aspirations #carpe-diem #inspirational #dreams

I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#gibran #giving #joy #life #service

It's a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others is even more fun. ↗

— Randy Pausch

#childhood-dream #life-lessons #dreams

My dear boy, looking like a thing has little to do with being a thing. Be the thing first, and you will grow to resemble it. ↗

— Liam Perrin

#appearances #discouragement #dreams #longing #wisdom

Next morning I went over to Paul’s for coffee and told him I had finished. “Good for you,” he said without looking up. “Start the next one today. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#writing #writing-advice #art

‎Never say you can't be a writer or a script writer, remember how well, characters in your dreams said their dialogues. ↗

— Dipesh Nepal

#dreams

The minute I stopped trying to find the right girl, and started trying to become the right guy...the girl came. ↗

— Jonathan Antin

#inspirational #love #dating

Erlendur didn’t believe in premonitions, visions or dreams, nor reincarnation or karma, he didn’t believe in God although he’d often read the Bible, nor in eternal life or that his conduct in this world would affect whether he went to heaven or hell. He felt that life itself offered a mixture of the two. ↗

— Arnaldur Indriðason

#life-and-living #life-philosophy #dreams

I told him your loins were clearly burning, and he should man up and make a move." "You did not!" "I did. And if he doesn't, then I suggest you jump his bones." ... I finally register what he's wearing. It's a handsome skinny black suit with a shiny sheen. The pants are too short - on purpose, of course - exposing his usual pointy shoes and a pair of blue socks that match my dress exactly. And I totally want to jump him. ↗

— Stephanie Perkins

#lust #dating

But if the abberations of foolish youth made me forget suc wise lessons for a time,I have the happiness to sense at last that whatever the inclination one may have toward vice,it is difficult for an education in which the heart is involved to remain forever lost. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#heart #vice #education