#ass

Embrace love and compassion with all your spirit. Understand that they never hurt or offend, they just heal and empower. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#embrace #empower #heal #inspirational #life

Simply being with someone is difficult because it asks of us that we share in the other's vulnerability, enter with him or her into the experience of weakness and powerlessness, become part of the uncertainty, and give up control and self-determination. (p. 12) ↗

— Henri J. M. Nouwen Donald P. McNeill Douglas A. Morrison

#presence #experience

What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion, but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life, that it is in this way that poetry becomes the greatest truth, by intensification, condensation of experience. While poetry is considered by most as illusion or delusion, it is the only reality, the moment when we are completely alive. ↗

— Anais Nin

#mystics #passion #poetry #truth #experience

Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are held in captivity or subjected to starvation, social isolation, physical restraint, or painful situations from which they cannot escape. Even if it is not the same experience of pain, anxiety, or suffering undergone by humans- or even other animals, including members of the same species- an individual's pain, suffering, and anxiety matter. ↗

— Marc Bekoff

#animals #compassion #pain #speciesism #suffer

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#inferno #italian-medieval-poetry #lustful #passion #reason

Spread your happiness to others and let them spread theirs to you. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #kindness #experience

Don't hate the bullies. Experience tells me that hating them, or being angry with them, will always make it worse. Instead, put your arm around them. Love them. Tell them that they are valuable. Tell them that you expect great things from them. They will stop the bullying. They will stop, because they will start to love themselves. And people who love themselves don’t bully others. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#bully #bullying #compassion #empathy #greatness

I wanted desperately to get all hot and sweaty with this guy, but I knew from experience that hormones affected my sensibilities like alcohol or pot. In the throes of passion I tend to vow my eternal love to a penis I might use and abuse, with little regard for the man connected to it. I'm trying to keep that habit. ↗

— Susan Volland

#humor #love #lust #males #passion

I know who you are.” Ash’s voice shook slightly, which chilled me even more. That Ash, fearless, unshakable Ash, was afraid of this thing filled me with dread. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#iron-fey #meghan #meghan-and-ash #winter-s-passage #fearless

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#assurance #faith #inspirational #faith