#passion

I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive. ↗

— Joey Lauren Adams

#come #cry #feel #i #just

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. ↗

— John Adams

#cannot #dictates #evidence #facts #inclinations

However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about. ↗

— Ted Allen

#been #before #chicago #cook #critic

Nothing is more permanent than passion when you have a heart of stone. No one needs more dusting than a sensitive soul who has a heart of ash. ↗

— Bauvard

#love #passion #sensitivity #love

She had seen what it cost him and her heart quickened with compassion. For that alone, she might have loved him almost. ↗

— Cecilia Dart-Thornton

#kindness #love #sacrifice #love

My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature ↗

— Josephine Hart

#marriage #passionate-living #marriage

Why are...poor people more ready to share their goods than rich people? The answer is easy: The poor have little to lose; the rich have more to lose and they are more attached to their possessions. Poverty provides a deeper motivation for understanding your neighbors, welcoming others and attending to those who are suffering. I would go so far as to say that poverty helps you understand what happiness is, what serenity is in life. ↗

— Piero Gheddo

#attention #christianity #compassion #empathy #giving

Passion is not a reaction to an external event. It is the left over emotions from the internal battles you have won that propels you forward. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#passion #motivational

I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that's my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#fame #lady-gaga #music #passion #music

Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness. ↗

— Walter Brueggemann

#nature