#tite

Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#appetite #evil #life

My heart is hardy, for I have suffered much on the seas and the battlefield: this will be only something more. But a ravenous belly cannot be hid, damn the thing. It gives a world of trouble to men, makes them fit out fleets of ships and scour the barren sea, to bring misery on their enemies. ↗

— W.H.D. Rouse

#flesh #greed #men

Truth only exists for those who cling to it. "Sosuke Aizen ↗

— Tite Kubo

#cling #kubo #manga #tite #truth

Happiness is our natural state of being that cannot be found in anything external. ↗

— Christopher Dines

#christopher-dines-quotes #la-petite-fleur-publishing #manifest-your-bliss #nature

The enlightened question to ask in any relationship is, “what can I give rather than what can I get? ↗

— Christopher Dines

#christopher-dines-quotes #la-petite-fleur-publishing #manifest-your-bliss #relationship

It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect. ↗

— Galt Niederhoffer

#books #cruel #discussing #dissecting #driving

We should set our goals; then learn to control our appetites. Otherwise, we will lose ourselves in the confusion of the world. ↗

— Hark Herald Sarmiento

#confusion #goals #self-control #world #goal-setting

...But living creatures are strange. They are made in such a way that they can actualize only what their minuscule minds wish for. ↗

— Sosuke Aizen

#anime #bleach #kubo #manga #sosuke

Fear is necessary for evolution. The fear that one could be destroyed at any moment. ↗

— Sosuke Aizen

#anime #bleach #kubo #manga #sosuke

You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#appetite #components #desire #does #ideal