Brianna Carleton

“Maybe one function of love is to cure us of an anemic imagination, a life emptied of romantic attachment and abandoned to reason.”
― Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul: Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

“Greatness consists,’ he said, ‘in deciding only what is necessary for the welfare of the country, and making straight for the goal. … In the belief that you are not great, but small and weak, and expecting no help to reach you from any quarter, you will in the end surmount all hindrances. And if any man, after that, calls you great, you will simply laugh in his face.”
― John Patrick Douglas Balfour, Ataturk: The Rebirth of a Nation

“12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o’clock.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his past was, no matter what he had done. Which was not to say that she would ever let him know, but only that he moved her chemically more than anyone she had ever met, that all other men seemed pale beside him.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, A New Leaf