#pass

His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#compassion #heartwarming #love #pg- #beauty

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#passion #war #life

The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #passion #life

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#empathy #loneliness #love #love

I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it. ↗

— Ted Allen

#chef #cook #cooking #food #home

But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders. ↗

— Tom Allen

#comes #country #fouls #impasse #land

These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things. ↗

— Tom Allen

#been #bills #borrowing #cuts #essentially

The fiery force is nothing more than the life force as we know it. It is the flame of desire and love, of sex and beauty, of pleasure and joy as we consume and are consumed, as we burn with pleasure and burn out in time. ↗

— Harold Norse

#joy #life #love #passion #pleasure

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. ↗

— Aristotle

#causes #chance #compulsions #desire #habit

In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman. ↗

— Nancy Astor

#also #blame #chance #first #first time