#passion

The sex was so passionate it bordered on violence. It was not vanilla. It was passion as suffering ↗

— Elise Valmorbida

#love

I write romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect. ↗

— Angeline M. Bishop

#novels #passion #reflection #romance #writers

The master demon Screwtape identifies elitist humanity's tendency toward "an ingrained habit of belittling anything that concerns the great mass of their fellow men. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#elitism #relevance #men

Other people are only aspects of our own greater being. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#inspiration #paranormal #people #philosophy #spirituality

Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen, for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle could be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches. ↗

— Laura Esquivel

#passion #water-for-chocolate #experience

Most of us care about one another. Human beings have considerably more in common with one another than they do differences. One’s religion, political persuasion, family, financial and social status, or vocation does not hamper the common thread of personal decency running through most of humankind. ↗

— Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

#empathy #ethics #family

Feed the birds; those little acts of kindness will literally bring love and beauty to your backyard.Bring sacredness back to your life ↗

— Martin Suarez

#birds #compassion #kindness #life-lessons #love

Love and accept everyone for who they are, for where they are in life. That is compassion. ↗

— Kristi Bowman

#compassion #love #life

I want to save someone with a passionate embrace. I want to have a CPR romance. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #love #passion #romance

The more fucked up you are, the more I like you. As long as you've managed to hold onto your identity through all the shit, then it won't matter how twisted you are. I will love you more for it. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#experiences #fucked-up #humor #identity #love