#emo

Understanding did not provide solace or make the pain go away; in many ways, understanding was just more salt in the emotional wound. Ignorance allowed one to fight back with unfettered cruelty. Understanding inspired empathy, which led to guilt, as well as suffering. She looked at Gavin, supine, unconcerned, contented, and thought that perhaps there was something to being a sociopath. If you didn't have a heart, it couldn't be broken. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#empathy #feelings #feelings-of-weakness #heartbreak #sympathy

An act of kindness may take only a moment of our time, but when captured in the heart the memory lives forever. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#forever-love #heart #inspiration #inspirational-quotes #joy

Reflection is a good thing. It allows us to look back in time so we can connect the dots between specific memories to reveal the purpose and meaning behind synchronistic events. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#connect-dots #inspiration #inspirational-quotes #life-purpose #memories

What we're seeing early on is Democrats rallying around Al Gore, Republicans rallying around George Bush and the difficulty of anybody else to get any room in the race. ↗

— Stuart Rothenberg

#al gore #any #anybody #around #bush

The things that your eyes see plainly and cant forget are worse than huddled black figures left to the imagination. ↗

— Kendare Blake

#memory #see #imagination

Imagination has a poor memory, it slinks away and gets blurry. Eyes remember much longer. ↗

— Kendare Blake

#imagination

Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#inspirational #memory #inspirational

If words had cost money, Tom couldn't have used them more sparingly. The adjectives were purely descriptive, relating to form and colour, and were used to present the objects under consideration, not the young explorer's emotions. Yet through this austerity one felt the kindling imagination, the ardour and excitement of the boy, like the vibration in a voice when the speaker strives to conceal his emotion by using only the conventional phrases. ↗

— Willa Cather

#writing #imagination

So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood. Doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot, but it is gone for ever from our imagination, and we can only BELIEVE in the joy of childhood. ↗

— George Eliot

#imagination

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#inspirational #politics #inspirational