Passion Quotes - Page 47

Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There's just too much at stake.

Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him.

When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

God Chasers are people whose passion for being in His presence press them to chase the impossible in hopes that the uncatchable might catch them!

Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes

Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency.

We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.

If you are passionate, be passionate about the highest, the most wonderful, and the most beautiful. Be passionate about this entire creation for everything is so beautiful.

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.

Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

Find that thing that you are passionate about, that you will do day or night whether someone pays you or not...because if you have that, you will have gold.

I love color. It must submit to me. And I love art. I kneel before it, and it must become mine. Everything around me glows with passion. Every day reveals a new red flower, glowing, scarlet red. Everyone around me carries them. Some wear them quietly hidden in their hearts. And they are like poppies just opening, of which one can see only here and there a hint of red petal peeking out from the green bud.

I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.

A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

Let the flower of compassion blossom in the rich soil of maître, and water it with the good water of equanimity in the cool, refreshing shade of joy.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.

The passion of rescue reveals the highest dynamic of the human soul.

We move in response to our conversation partner’s face, and our brain also fires as we move those muscles and stirs the passions. Paralyzing the face is idiotic.

Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening children, till tears of pity glisten in their eyes, or boiling passion shakes their tender frames.

Don't ever think compassion is weak. Compassion is about strength.

Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.

Instead of educating the I.Q., we need to educate the H.Q., the heart quotient, the matters of truth, love, justice, and compassion. There are two ways to do this. One is through the read life experiences and the other is through literature. Literature has the power to take us outside ourselves and returns to ourselves a changed self.