#passion

We can see Spirit made visible when people are kind to one another, especially when it's a really busy person, like you, taking care of a needy, annoying, neurotic person, like you. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#needs #self #spirit #business

Compassion is a two way street. ↗

— Frank Capra

#street #two #way

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#compassion #courage #great #nation #resilience

The reason Apple is really good, I think, and the reason their stores succeeded, is not just 'cause we know the big idea, but we have a real passion for the littlest detail. It's legendary in our products. ↗

— Ron Johnson

#big #big idea #cause #detail #good

What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#act #caring #desire #fear #love

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. ↗

— James Joyce

#better #boldly #fade #full #glory

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

#act #any #comes #deny #easily

Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121) ↗

— Robin R. Meyers

#condemnation #politics #change

If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

#career #could #had #i #i do

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#knowledge #life #longing #love #mankind