#comp

The only reason I am successful is because I have stayed true to myself. ↗

— Lindsey Stirling

#hip-hop #music #violin #violinist #music

It was out of his compassion that Jesus' healing emerged. He did not cure to prove, to impress, or to convince. His cures were the natural expression of his being our God. The mystery of God's love is not that our pain is taken away, but that God first wants to share that pain with us. (p. 16) ↗

— Henri J. M. Nouwen Donald P. McNeill Douglas A. Morrison

#god #love

The Moon rules our emotional nature, how we react in situations, and what is needed in our lives to make us feel emotionally safe and secure. ↗

— Rosemary Breen

#horoscope #horoscope-compatibility #nature

artificial intellegance is no match for natural stupidity ↗

— Albert Einstein

#nature

Victory takes sides on people who are more compatible with nature and future. ↗

— Toba Beta

#future #nature #take-sides #victory #nature

Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness. ↗

— Walter Brueggemann

#nature

Pride,’ observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, ‘is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary. ↗

— Jane Austen

#pride #reflections #self-complacency #truth #nature

The truly patient man neither complains of his hard lot nor desires to be pitied by others. He speaks of his sufferings in a natural, true, and sincere way, without murmuring, complaining, or exaggerating them. ↗

— St. Francis de Sales

#patient #nature

His act was rather that of a harmless lunatic than an enemy. We were not so new to the country as not to know that the solitary life of many a plainsman had a tendency to develop eccentricities of conduct and character not always easily distinguishable from mental aberration. A man is like a tree: in a forest of his fellows he will grow as straight as his generic and individual nature permits; alone, in the open, he yields to the deforming stresses and tortions that environ him. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#crazy #loneliness #society #solitude #nature

We can act to deal with the consequences of the earthquake and tsunami, but the disaster was only faintly political in the economics and indifference...the relief will be very political, in who gives how much (Bush offering 15 million, then 35 million under pressure, the cost of his inauguration and then 350 million under strong international pressure)...but the event itself transcends politics, the realm of things we cause and can work to prevent. We cannot wish that human beings were not subject to the forces of nature, including the mortality... we cannot wish for the seas to dry up, that the waves grow still, that the tectonic plates ceast to exist, that nature ceases to be beyond our abilities to predict and control... But the terms of that nature include such catastrophe and suffering, which leaves us with sorrow as not a problem to be solved but a fact. And it leaves us with compassion as the work we will never finish ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#disaster #politics #nature