#sir

If you are causing trouble, look for allies, always. ↗

— Justine Larbalestier

#inspirational #sirens #inspirational

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek. ↗

— Mario Andretti

#commitment #desire #determination #enable #excellence

It's not that I feel alone because I have no friends because I have lots of friends. I know that I have people who can hold me and reassure me and talk to ne and care for me and think of me but they can't be inside my head with me all the time - for all time. ↗

— Rob Ryan

#desire #friendship #hope #insipration #love

The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy. ↗

— Rumi

#intelligence #self-control #intelligence

No matter how strong our resolve, we eventually find ourselves enslaved by the compulsive preference for one particular woman. You’ve been caught, my friend. You may as well reconcile yourself to it.” Nick did not bother trying to deny it. “I was going to be so much smarter than you,” he muttered. Sir Ross grinned. “I prefer to think that intelligence has nothing to do with it. For if a man’s intellect is measured by his ability to remain untouched by love, I would be the greatest idiot alive. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#nick-gentry #romance #sir-cannon #intelligence

Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more anxious! ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#desire #fear #jealousy #longing #love

what was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that did well in arid souls. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#jealousy #rose #jealousy

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire. ↗

— Willa Cather

#life

— you don’t understand — there are things worth dying for! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#sirius-black #life

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are (p. 331). ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#life #self #want #life