#passion

Compassion is the key to the ultimate survival of our species. ↗

#humanity #inspiration #survival #inspirational

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing. ↗

— Albert Camus

#compassion #life #religion #life

It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#love #passion #upset #life

I wouldn't sing any of this if I didn't think it might help someone. Especially girls. It's so hard for girls - pressure to like this band or that band, dress like this but not like that - do whatever will make you blend into the wall. But girls are so passionate inside, waiting for an outlet - and that's what I try to encourage: be who you are, take control of your life. ↗

— Lacey Mosley

#encouragement #flyleaf #girls #hard #help

Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life... ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#civilization #compassion #contempt #man #time

But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life. ↗

— John Piper

#making-a-difference #passion #life

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but on the mastery of his passions. ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

#life

How good life is when one does something good and just! ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#goodness #justice #kindness #life

...It also taught me that while cruelty can be fun for a few moments, compassion has a much longer shelf life. ↗

— Doreen Orion

#cruelty #empathy #teasing #life

Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing. ↗