#passion

Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they've been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it beats the alternative. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#money #occupy-wall-street #safety #money

We cannot suffer with the poor when we are unwilling to confront those persons and systems that cause poverty. We cannot set the captives free when we do not want to confront those who carry the keys. We cannot profess our solidarity with those who are oppressed when we are unwilling to confront the oppressor. Compassion without confrontation fades quickly to fruitless sentimental commiseration. (p. 122) ↗

— Henri J. M. Nouwen Donald P. McNeill Douglas A. Morrison

#confrontation #oppression #poverty #poverty

Creativity and passion dwindle when hungry. Premiums for talent are easier to demand when desperation isn’t part of the equation. If I’m established, I can demand $350 an hour. If I’m desperate, I may accept $5. ↗

— John-Talmage Mathis

#entrepreneurship #money #passion #money

Let your action manifest your thought, your belief and your passion. ↗

— Mohammed Ali Bapir

#ambition #belief #motivation #motivational #passion

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

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body. ↗

— Richard Selzer

#medical #medicine #passion #pathology #science

We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#nature #passion-unleashed #nature

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#charity #compassion #kindness #acting

Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It's the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#compassion

If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#kindness #compassion