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Chris Lavergne

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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”
— Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Element
Tagged: Ambition
“A sweet dwelling-place in hell.”
— Michelangelo Buonarroti, Poems and Letters
Tagged: Lust, Paradoxes
“She bleeds me pint by pint and saps my body.”
— Michelangelo Buonarroti, Poems and Letters
Tagged: Femme Fatale, Cruel/Beautiful, You Kill Me
“If fire were equal to the loveliness that burns in your bright eyes, the coldest regions of the world would flame like fiery arrows flaring as they pass.”
— Michelangelo Buonarroti, Poems and Letters
Tagged: Love, Pick Up Lines, Descriptions of Beautiful Eyes
“Your beauty, Love, is not a mortal thing: there is no face among us that can match the image in the heart you rule and touch with fire.”
— Michelangelo Buonarroti, Poems and Letters
Tagged: Love, Sexual/Love Transcendence, Too Pure To Be Touched
“When I’m without you for a single day, wherever I may be, I get no peace”
— Michelangelo Buonarroti, Poems and Letters
Tagged: Love
“This love I live is nowhere in my heart, it cannot stay with what is mortal, where it meets with error and with evil thought.”
— Michelangelo Buonarroti, Poems and Letters
Tagged: Platonism, Transcendental Love, Ideals Corrupted By Reality, Life Under The Shadow of Idealism
“My life’s not mine, but that of sin alone.”
— Michelangelo Buonarroti, Poems and Letters
“Here in your lovely face I see, my lord, what in this life no words could ever tell.”
— Michelangelo Buonarroti, Poems and Letters
Tagged: Awe, When Words Fail
“The first component to achieving something is picking it.”
— Benjamin Hardy, If You Don’t Believe In Setting Goals, It’s Because You Don’t Know How To Do It
Tagged: Commitment, Decisions, Just Choose Something!, What Matters Is You Decide (Not What You Decide)