“There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous.”
Robert Greene book The 48 Laws of Power
Source: The 48 Laws of Power
“There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous.”
Robert Greene book The 48 Laws of Power
Source: The 48 Laws of Power
Linda Howard (1950) American writer
Source: Kill and Tell
“Old teenage hopes are alive at your door
Left you with nothing
But they want some more.”
Leslie Feist (1976) Canadian musician
"1 2 3 4" (written with Sally Seltmann)
The Reminder (2007)
Context: One Two Three Four
Tell me that you love me more
Sleepless, long nights
That was what my youth was for Old teenage hopes are alive at your door
Left you with nothing
But they want some more.
Kodo Sawaki (1880–1965) Japanese zen Buddhist monk
Source: The Zen Teaching of "Homeless" Kodo (Kyoto: Kyoto Soto Zen Center, 1990), p. 72
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright
The Song of the Bell (1799)
“To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.”
James Hillman (1926–2011) American psychologist
Source: Suicide and the Soul
“Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.”
Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance
Source: A Woman of No Importance