#pass

And I don’t even like you, but the pain of life without you is biting. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#friendship #hate #jamie-weise #love #missing-you

He had to feel those lips on him again. Had. To. This wasn’t a mild expression of preference. This was an imperative. His body was insistent. To continue his existence on this earth, he now needed the following: food, water, shelter, clothing, and Minerva Highwood’s lips. ↗

— Tessa Dare

#passion #sweet #food

Forgiving is easier when we understand that forgiving someone else means that we are freeing ourselves of an unnecessary burden. ↗

— Donna Goddard

#compassionate-love #forgiveness #love #forgiveness

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#compassion #considers #crumbs #full #himself

...what happens tomorrow is the future but what happened yesterday is already part of on-going history... ↗

— Peggy Herbert

#time-passing #home

FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone. ↗

— Brandon Mull

#humor #magic #trespassing #humor

Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul. ↗

— Alister E. McGrath

#passion #imagination

Then she'd stared at him with those radiant blue eyes and asked him to let her go. And bugger, bugger, bigger, he'd suddenly imagined he was sodding Sir Galahad. ↗

— Anna Campbell

#imagination

In trying to find who you are, be less destructive and more constructive. Look at art or whatever your passion is and be productive. ↗

— Nirrimi Joy Hakanson

#identity #life #live #passion #productivity

If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't feel the pain of others because they haven't imaginatively got under their skins. ↗

— Yann Martel

#empathy #imagination