#passion

People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness. ↗

— Meg Wolitzer

#eaten #emotion #food #life #meal

Our true passions are selfish. ↗

— Stendhal

#passions #selfish #true

The more you read within a balanced life, the more time you have. Strange but true. ↗

— Mark O'Brien

#entertaining #fun #knowledge #passion #peace

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#hobby #passion #skills #life

He told me that while he was in a Chinese Communist gulag for almost eighteen years, he faced danger on a few occasions. I thought he was referencing a threat to his own life. But when I asked, "What danger?" he answered, "Losing compassion toward the Chinese. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#life

Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#broken

She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog. ↗

— Stephen King

#soul #stubborn #women #emotion

When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#feelings #heart #love #wealth #life

The enchanted day is only enchanted if we ourselves believe that anything is possible. ↗

— Mark O'Brien

#happiness #life #luck-peace #magic #passion

I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#find-your-passion #find-yourself #growing-up #knowing-who-you-are #learning