#passion

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#passion #reason-and-judgment #soul #the-prophet #judgment

Perhaps,” murmured his lordship, “I yielded to a compassionate impulse.” “A what?” gasped his best friend. “Oh, did you think I never did so?” said his lordship, the satirical glint in his eyes extremely pronounced. “You wrong me! I do, sometimes—not frequently, of course, but every now and then! ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#satire

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#health #meditation #mind-training #mindfulness #social-media

But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#beautiful #chaotic #flow #heart #his

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care. ↗

— Todd Akin

#compassion #efficiency #federal #federal government #government

Now he was nothing to her, just a lesson in time, a wicked boy-man, incapable of wealth or prestige. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#jamie-weise #lesson-learned #love #love-hate #love-hate-relationship

I did not know I was on a search for passionate aliveness. I only knew I was lonely and lost and that something was drawing me deeper beneath the surface of my life in search of meaning. There is a hunger in people to go to those deep depths; to know that our lives are sacred; that our hearts are truly capable of love. It is a yearning to be all the we can be. A longing for what is real. ↗

— Anne Hillman

#lonely #lost #meaning #passion #passionate

Bahujanahitāya bahujanasukhāya lokānukampāya: For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#buddhism #compassion #greater-good #love #tolerance

Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well, it criticizes itself incessantly; so far from banishing thought, it is itself reared only upon a structure of thought. ↗

— Stendhal

#passion #psychology #thought #love

A soft mist blew around them. Raindrops glistened in his hair, shimmering under the pale glow of the light post. His eyes were shadowed beneath wispy fringes, but the silver in them glinted like pools of liquid mercury. Her breath caught. It must have made a sound because his fingers tightened. His shaky exhale whispered across her face. “This,” he whispered so quietly she almost didn’t hear him. “Is why you are so bad for me. ↗

— Airicka Phoenix

#dangerous-games #mystery-suspense #passionate-love #thriller #young-adult