One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.
Honore De BalzacRead
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
Interpretation
A person's unpursued passions can lead to a dull and colorless life.
This quote suggests that failing to follow one's true calling or vocation can result in a lack of fulfillment and joy in life. It emphasizes the importance of pursuing passions and dreams to add richness and vibrancy to one's existence.
In practice
During a motivational speech about pursuing dreams.
One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.
Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?
However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?
Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.
Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.
Life is hard but so very beautiful
I don't want to finish my life not being alive. I think that is the saddest thing that can happen to a person. I want to keep living to the end.
We wept, Brooklyn was a lovely place to hit. If you got a ball in the air, you had a chance to get it out. When they tore down Ebbets Field, they tore down a little piece of me.
My mom showed me how important it is to surround yourself with opportunities and make the most of them.
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