#passion

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#convulsion #ever #ever after #fits #leave

One's life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#life #makes #may #new #new york

While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#compassion #education #meditation #art

Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced. ↗

— Nick Rahall

#actions #american #american people #charity #compassion

I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#anything #believe #dragged #every #i

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life. ↗

— Faye Dunaway

#destiny #different #entire #entire life #farmer

When I don't understand things, I become passionate to understand. ↗

— Noomi Rapace

#i #passionate #things #understand

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case. ↗

— John Rawls

#capacity #case #certainly #clearly #compassion

Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#generosity #inspirational #loving-kindness #spiritual #attitude

I just love bikes. It's not the safest passion to have, but I guess it's better than Russian roulette. ↗

— Ryan Reynolds

#bikes #guess #i #just #love