#passion

There is the love that I love but don't want to love and try to bleed out so the love that I want but don't want, can die a tragic death. And as it lays dying, I'm touched with remorse, feel regret, and try to keep it beating. If it does, I panic, and go through the cycle all over again. What do you call that except pure madness? I'm a catastrophic tsunami on any man who tries to love me. And if I really care about a man, you would think I would be sweet and supportive, but instead I set fires and dare them to walk through them. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#mad-love #passion #death

The kindness sent from one compassionate soul to another during the time of loss of one held so dear allows the sorrow-filled heart to open wide, filling the space of emptiness that grief may have created with a renewed sense of peace, compassion, and love. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#compassion #death #god #grief #heart

Passion is the heart set free to pursue that which is truly worthy. Those who set their hearts on that which is most worthy live with joy-filled abandonment. Their hearts are both seized and satisfied with ambition only for Jesus to be ardently worshipped. That love comes to dominate and integrate all other desires so as to live in the freedom of single-minded purpose. ↗

— Perspectives Sutdy Guide

#freedom

It's funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#compassion #god #hope #inspirational #journey

Interestingly, one mate of mine, a proper leftie, in his heyday all Red Wedge and right-on punch-ups, was melancholy. "I thought I'd be overjoyed, but really it's just … another one bites the dust …" This demonstrates, I suppose, that if you opposed Thatcher's ideas it was likely because of their lack of compassion, which is really just a word for love. If love is something you cherish, it is hard to glean much joy from death, even in one's enemies. ↗

— Russell Brand

#death #ideology #love #thatcher #death

We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#compassion #inspirational #change

Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#compassion #inspirational #kindness #change

I am not going to change who I am. I am human and I know how to love, and be kind, and be compassionate to those who are weaker than me. Just because I have power doesn't mean I have to use it! ↗

— Garth Nix

#love #change

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

— Doug Dillon

#inspiration #paranormal #people #philosophy #spirituality

We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#compassion #mediation #change