"A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires."

-- Petrarch

#Inspirational Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Desire Quotes

“And now the sequence of events in no particular order.”
“I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.”
“A fop sometimes gives important advice.”

Source : "The Art of Poetry (Canto IV)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.
“You may very well ask what the goddess of love is doing in St. Andrews, writing trashy romances. Adapting.”
“Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.”

Source : Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.376, Simon and Schuster
“Cider was my drink because I liked the taste and it made me stupid.”
“Prayer frees us to be controlled by God. To pray is to change. There is no greater liberating force in the Christian life than prayer. To enter the gaze of the Holy is never to be the same. To bathe in the Light in quiet wonder and glad surrender is to be slowly, permanently transformed. There is a richer inward orientation, a deep hunger for communion. We feel as if we are being taken over by a new control Center, and so we are.”
“I've owned a business for 26 years. My family isn't in politics and my supporters aren't special interest groups in Madison and Milwaukee.”

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