#thy

I don’t want a girl, or a woman, or a supermodel. I want you. ↗

— Nicole Williams

#love #swoon-worthy #the-one #love

To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. (157) ↗

— Stephen Batchelor

#empathy #love #suffering #love

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#social-isolation #sociopathy #united-states #united-states

There are pockets of wealth in this country. Mostly those pockets are in the politicians’ pants. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#corrupt #corruption #country #funny #humor

To sympathize with the suffering of others forges understanding, but that doesn't mean they'll put up with you. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#humor #sympathy #toleration #funny

If I could bronze my love, it’d be worthy of a silver medal.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#funny #humor #love #medal #silver-medal

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly. ↗

— Mark Twain

#humor #revenge #humor

Scientists talk about dark matter, the invisible, mysterious substance that occupies the space between stars. Dark matter makes up 99.99 percent of the universe, and they don't know what it is. Well I do. It's apathy. That's the truth of it; pile together everything we know and care about in the universe and it will still be nothing more than a tiny speck in the middle of a vast black ocean of Who Gives a Fuck. ↗

— David Wong

#humor #science #stars #universe #humor

Trust is developed under pressure and over time; just as with God by us." ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#trust #trusting-god #trustworthiness #trustworthy #r-alan-woods

To us post-moderns, empathy is a stranger in a strange land". ~R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods