#pass

When we talk to our fellow men and they tell us about their troubles, we will listen to them carefully if we have love for them. We will have compassion for their suffering and pain, for we are God's creatures; we are a manifestation of the love of God. ↗

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

#compassion #council #eastern-orthodoxy #god-s-love #love

Personally, I prefer Stevie Wonder," confessed the Chink, "but what the hell. Those cowgirls are always bitching because the only radio station in the area plays nothing but polkas, but I say you can dance to anything if you really feel like dancing." To prove it, he got up and danced to the news. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#passion #philosophy #humor

I thought of you with your hair silver as snow all through that cold, slow journey from Sirle. I felt you troubled deep within me, and there was no other place in the world I would rather have been than in the cold night riding to you. When you opened your gates to me, I was home. ↗

— Patricia A. McKillip

#passion #love

Just be careful. Passion is a bridge that connects love and hate. When you're standing in the middle of that bridge, don't let yourself get turned around. You've got to make sure you know which direction you're heading. Watch yourself. ↗

— Jay Bell

#love #passion #love

In a world full of commonplace tragedies, only one thing exists that truly has the power to save lives, and that is love. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#compassion #healing #hope #kindness #love

What am I to you?” He brought his forehead to hers, staring into her, his eyes holding nothing but naked truth. “I’ve loved you for so long… You’re my downfall,” he whispered, his words breaking, “…and my fucking salvation. ↗

— Dianna Hardy

#love #passion #salvation #truth #love

There's nothing wrong with helping someone without a cost. Especially if there's no end return. ↗

— Solange nicole

#compassion-wisdom #love #people #selflessness #solange

A bride, before a "Good-night" could be said, Should vanish from her clothes into her bed, As souls from bodies steal, and are not spied. But now she's laid; what though she be? Yet there are more delays, for where is he? He comes and passeth through sphere after sphere; First her sheets, then her arms, then anywhere. Let not this day, then, but this night be thine; Thy day was but the eve to this, O Valentine. ↗

— John Donne

#bridegroom #love #passion #sexuality #wedding

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#humanity #love #mankind #art

Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North - meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing. we can use this. We can use it as a compass. We can navigate by Resistance, letting it guide us to that calling or action that we must follow before all others. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#compass #navigate #resistance #true-north #art