#pass

Love and compassion are the mother and father of a smile. We need to create more smiles in our world today. Smiles, after all, pave the way to a happy world. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #inspirational #kindness #love #smiles

Be tough minded but tenderhearted. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#independent-thought #inspirational #life #inspirational

It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn't depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn't depend on how long you've held on to the old view. When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn't matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades. The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn't see before. Its never too late to take a moment to look. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#compassion #inspiration #meditation #inspirational

When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the abundance you seek. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #inspirational #kindness #life #motivational

A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#day #desolation #every #every day #exile

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. ↗

— Leon Edel

#fade #his #house #inner #into

Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#empathy #selfishness #social-intelligence #intelligence

I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport. ↗

— Jon Anderson

#great #great moments #i #i think #life

As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#inner-beauty #love #passion #beauty

Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood. ↗

— William Baldwin

#activism #career #hobby #livelihood #passionate