#passion

I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#compassion #death #empathy #mourning #objectivity

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

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

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#great #great souls #law #never #passion

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#before #flint #force #forth #give

Compassion is not a popular virtue. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#popular #virtue

Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#christianity #compassion #islam #judaism #key

I have compassion, I've told you people that over and over again. Enforcing the law overrides my compassion. ↗

— Joe Arpaio

#compassion #enforcing #i #law #over