#ding

The eleventh gift is Love. It will grow each time you give it away. ↗

— Charlene Costanzo

#character-building #inspiration #love #inspirational

There’s often a reason why people and dogs bite. It’s about self-protection. If we respect what we may not know about the suffering of others and look at them compassionately, we open the door that can lead to understanding. ↗

— Jennifer Skiff

#dogs #inspirational #self-protection #suffering #understanding

Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity. ↗

— Donald J. Bingle

#reading #writing #inspirational

Enjoy the read! ↗

— Kirstin van Dyke

#reading #inspirational

Understanding did not provide solace or make the pain go away; in many ways, understanding was just more salt in the emotional wound. Ignorance allowed one to fight back with unfettered cruelty. Understanding inspired empathy, which led to guilt, as well as suffering. She looked at Gavin, supine, unconcerned, contented, and thought that perhaps there was something to being a sociopath. If you didn't have a heart, it couldn't be broken. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#empathy #feelings #feelings-of-weakness #heartbreak #sympathy

It takes understanding to be outstanding ↗

— Pastor Simeon Nwani

#motivational #understanding #inspirational

Speaking kind words starts a wave of love in motion that brings more love upon your shores. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#kind-words #kindness #love #peace #shores

A purposeful act or extension of kindness to another is never wasted, for it always resides in the hearts of all involved in a chain of love. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#extending-your-heart #happiness #inspiration #inspirational-quotes #kindness

Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#chimerical #country #faces #father #feeling

The priest then turning toward the bride, inquired: "Wilt thou have this man to be thy wedded husband, etc., etc., so long as ye both shall live?" To which the bride, throwing aside her veil, answered, firmly: "No! Not if he were the last man and I the last woman on the face of the earth and the human race was about to become extinct and the angel of Gabriel came down from above to ask it of me as a personal favor." The effect of this outburst, this revelation, this explosion, may be imagined but can never be adequately described. ↗

— E.D.E.N. Southworth

#reversal #wedding #imagination