#passion

This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire. ↗

— Mark Akenside

#could #doth #ever #every #experience

Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything. ↗

— Steve Albini

#anything #find #like #make #music

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#ask #bend #books #characters #determines

I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He'd better be strong and have a good heart! ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#better #feel #gets #good #good heart

I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#again #book #comeback #got #i

Our passion is our strength. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#passion #strength

Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#compassion #course #feeling #how #mean

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#compassion #dancing #day #diligently #knowledge

Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#around #being #christians #compassionate #deal

Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#been #central #compassion #conformity #doctrine