“The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.” DesireThreeAbilityDependsCreditFactorsVolume Author:Benjamin Graham
“To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy, or to pursue any excessive desire, diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.” IfsBelieveSelfWould BeDesireSeeingDependsPursueAdequate Author:Eric Hoffer
“Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.” DesireDifficultDependsRelaxCongratulationsEphemeral Author:Eva Green
“Friendship is far more delicate than love. Quarrels and fretful complaints are attractive in the last, offensive in the first. And the very things which heap fewel on the fire of ardent passion, choke and extinguish sober and true regard. On the other hand, time, which is sure to destroy that love of which half certainly depends on desire, is as sure to increase a friendship founded on talents, warm with esteem, and ambitious of success for the object of it.” FirstsHandsLastsDesirePassionHalfFireTalentObjectsDependsIncreaseRegardWarmEsteemAttractiveDelicateAmbitiousOffensiveComplaintsSoberQuarrelsChokeArdent Book:The Intimate Letters of Piozzi and Pennington Source: The Intimate Letters of Piozzi and Pennington