#passion

True love is born from understanding. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#compassion #love #understanding #love

LUCE: You really beleive this? That someday I'll live through this? DANIEL: With all my heart and soul, I will wait for you as long as it takes. I will love you every moment across time. -Daniel & Luce, PASSION ↗

— Lauren Kate

#daniel-grigori #daniel-luce #luce #lucinda-price #passion

To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession. ↗

— Denis de Rougemont

#love #never-ending #passion #possession #present

Compassion is born from the imagination. To have the desire to be compassionate, you have to imagine a world that’s better than the one you live in. ↗

— Ryan Henry Ward Artist

#imagination

There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world. ↗

— Mary Anne Radmacher

#empathy #kindness #empathy

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#empathy #empathy

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#passion #stoicism #empathy

We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#empathy #pride #selfishness #empathy

I could really use someone else's smile today. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#empathy #helping #helping-others #kindness #richelle

Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bitterness #cold #coldness #difficulties #discernment