#si

Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors. ↗

— Andrew Boyd

#destiny #empathy #pain #universe #love

I do not like the darkness, but please don’t make the light too strong. ↗

— Raphael Ben Levi

#hebrew #inspirational #jewishness #messianic #inspirational

It is in the so called common place that the extraordinary is found; it is when we choose to see things differently that magic reveals itself ↗

— Brett Swabey

#imagination #inspirational #possibilities #truth #imagination

[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#endurance #hatred #hope #injustice #life

It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling. ↗

— Liam Payne

#best #crowd #feeling #hear #people

How many minutes will still die in the swamp of your illusion of being human? ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#life #wisdom-inspirational #inspirational

I’ve heard it said, that people, come into our lives for a reason. Bringing something we must learn and we aren’t, to help us most to grow, if we let them, and we help them in return. Well I don’t know if I believe that’s true, but I know I’m who I am today because I knew you ↗

— Stephen Schwartz

#musical #wicked #friendship

It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#clinton #dream #europe #finally #fully

I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#ownership #silence #writing #inspirational

The most vibrant of flowers often come from the filthiest of soils. ↗

— Zack W. Van

#overcoming-adversity #zack-w-van #inspirational