#passion

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#be happy #compassion #happy #others #practice

This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labors but in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circumstances permit its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death - that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, besides which the passion usually called by the name is as evanescent as steam. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#feelings #love #marriage #passion #death

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#great #great passions #great things #only #passions

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion. ↗

— Everett Dirksen

#heart #match #mind #persuasion

Seven years is a long time, and he was there for me, when my mum died. He was very compassionate at that time. I couldn't have found anyone better in that situation. ↗

— Mary Elizabeth Donaldson

#better #compassionate #died #found #i

No matter who we are, where we live, what we look like, the circumstances of our birth or the situations we face; each of us has gifts within us. Strength, beauty, courage, compassion, hope, joy, talent, imagination, reverence, wisdom, love and faith are among them. They are not like material presents we unwrap and hold in our hands. We can’t see these gifts with our eyes. But they are real and powerful. When we open ourselves to them, they can enrich every aspect of our lives. They can help us transform challenges into opportunities and tragedies into triumphs. They can help us make a difference in the world. ↗

— Charlene Costanzo

#compassion #courage #faith #healing #hope

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#fear #guides #i #just #know

People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#discovery #give #great #i #joy

A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them. ↗

— David Duchovny

#because #difficult #directors #films #lot

The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested. ↗

— Richard Gere

#best #compassion #dalai #dalai lama #disinterested