#vic

Veni, Vidi, Vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered). ↗

— Julius Caesar

#leadership #success #victory #war #winning

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#awareness #life #life

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one ↗

— Bruce Lee

#prayer #life

Be grateful, be smart, be clean, be true, be humble, be prayerful. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#life

You will manage to keep a woman in love with you, only for as long as you can keep her in love with the person she becomes when she is with you. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#about-women #advice-for-men #being-in-love #life-and-living #nature

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#clutter #life #life

Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#life #life

You see it, don't you, James? Without Tessa there is nothing for me--no joy, no light, no life. If you loved me, you would let me have her. You can't love her as I do. No one could. If you are truly my brother, you would do this for me. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jem #tessa #the-infernal-devices #will #life

I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#the-infernal-devices #life

The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#gratitude #joy #les-miserables #suffering #victor-hugo