The Passion Quotes
With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?
It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.
The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.
The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.
After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.
Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use
I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.
You have to have some level of attachment, you can still have passion and believe but it has to be softened somewhat.
It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions
The gothic reminds us that we are mainly driven by our passions; the Gothic deals in illicit desires, in what is prohibited by society.
As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance.
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
I love music so much, and as long as I got all this enthusiasm and ambition, and passion for this music; as long as I'm having' fun - I'm gonna keep doin' it.
Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.
I sighed. I hated the maze of bureaucracy with a passion, but I've found the best way to deal with it is to smile and act stupid. That way, no one gets confused.
Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer
The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.
Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.
It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.
There's a sort of dead passion in him. A spark that, had he more years to live, would be a wildfire.
We know that passion, prejudice, party, and even good-will, tempt many who preserve a fair character with the world to deviate from truth in the laxity of conversation.
I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.
Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?
To have meaning, our lives require both passion and purpose. A life without passion is like a furnace without fuel, and without purpose, like a ship without a rudder.
Passion mutates into procedures, into rules and roles. Instead of purpose, we focus on policies. Instead of being free to create, we impose constraints that squeeze the life out of us.
The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
Pursuing a God-ordained passion, no matter how crazy it seems, is the most responsible thing you can do.
They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
