#duty

To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty. ↗

— Stieg Larsson

#friends #revenge #duty

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. ↗

— George Washington

#happiness #honor #honor

there are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done ↗

— Evan Meekins

#emotion #fantasy #fantasy-fiction #feelings #fiction

Marie, now Mme. Driscoll, turned to Berthe and smiled, as she used to when they were children. Once again, the smile said, Have I done the right thing? Is this what you wanted? Yes, yes, said Berthe silently, but she went on crying. ↗

— Mavis Gallant

#family-love #family

She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#duty #parents #life

We are meant to be.” He pressed his lips to mine again; against myself, against my worry, I once again succumbed to the power of his kiss. “I know that now. Our love is stronger than magic, stronger than the laws of all Feyland. It will survive this...whatever the future brings.” - Prince Kian, Silver Frost. ↗

— Kailin Gow

#fairy #frost-series #love #romance #war

Full moon is falling through the sky. Cranes fly through clouds. Wolves howl. I cannot find rest Because I am powerless To amend a broken world. Sima Zian added, "I love the man who wrote that, I told you before, but there is so much burden in Chan Du. Duty, assuming all tasks, can betray arrogance. The idea we can know what must be done, and do it properly. We cannot know the future, my friend. It claims so much to imagine we can. And the world is not broken any more than it always, always is. ↗

— Guy Gavriel Kay

#duty #foresight #future #powerlessness #imagination

Every duty that is bidden to wait comes back with seven fresh duties at its back. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#procrastination #procrastination

There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it. ↗

— Mary Lyon

#fail #fear #i #know #nothing

A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only a substitute for love (of God and of other people) like a crutch which is a substitute for a leg. Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#duty #love #perfect-man #love