#pass

for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#empathy #imagination

You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood... ↗

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

#passion #sexual #imagination

Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to it’s own devices and creates you to be much more then reality would ever allow. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#heartbreak #jamie-weise #love #missing-someone #missing-you

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#first #last #passed #present #present time

It is therefore of supreme importance that we consent to live not for ourselves but for others. When we do this we will be able first of all to face and accept our own limitations. As long as we secretly adore ourselves, our own deficiencies will remain to torture us with an apparent defilement. But if we live for others, we will gradually discover that no expects us to be 'as gods'. We will see that we are human, like everyone else, that we all have weaknesses and deficiencies, and that these limitations of ours play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and others need us. We are not all weak in the same spots, and so we supplement and complete one another, each one making up in himself for the lack in another. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#compassion #inspirational #inspirational

Compassion is the key to the ultimate survival of our species. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#humanity #inspiration #survival #inspirational

Any hand can condem, but it takes a helping hand to build. ↗

— Nate Spears

#nate-spears #passage #poet #poetry #quote

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cannot #captain #collaborated #directed #extent

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing. ↗

— Albert Camus

#compassion #life #religion #life

It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#love #passion #upset #life