#passion

Kindness, motherfucker, kindness. ↗

— Don Roff

#funny #inspirational #kindness #lol #motherfucker

Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#empathy #selfishness #social-intelligence #intelligence

I've found that musical theater is my passion. ↗

— Samantha Barks

#i #musical #musical theater #passion #theater

I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#certain #commandment #compassionate #god #human

I'm a very romantic and passionate guy. ↗

— Diego Boneta

#i #passionate #romantic #very

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#came #compassion #fallow #fields #had

Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate. ↗

— Harry Browne

#compassionate #concerned #effective #forcing #generous

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#empathy #giving #love #solutions #beauty

Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest. ↗

— Richard Francis Burton

#attentions #daily #earnest #falling #fit

My husband is a former Air Force pilot and my son is an active duty Army surgeon, recently returned from Iraq, so my pride in our military is passionate... and personal. ↗

— Robyn Carr

#air #air force #army #duty #force