Passion Quotes
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.Blaise Pascal
The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of Ten Best.H. Allen Smith
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.Georges Clemenceau
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.Rufus Choate
The worst sin - Perhaps the only sin - Passion can commit, is to be joyless.Dorothy L. Sayers, O Magazine, September 2003
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - How passionately I hate them.Albert Einstein
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire.La Rochefoucauld
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.Oliver Wendell Holmes
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.Honore de Balzac
I cannot believe that the purpose of life is merely to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all.Leo Rosten
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.Paul Johannes Tillich
Passion is the source of our finest moments, the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ectasy of grief.Ty King, Written for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, episode Passion, voice over by David Boreanaz
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.Ralph W. Sockman
Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.Ice T, The Ice Opinion
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.Robert Sternberg
Make no judgements where you have no compassion.Anne McCaffrey
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.George Washington Carve
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.Albert Schweitze
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He was then in his fifty - Fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.G. C. Lichtenberg
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.Alfred Lord Tennyson
National Health Insurance: The compassion of the IRS The efficiency of the Postal Service All at Pentagon prices!!!!Seen on a bumper sticke
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.De La Rochefoucauld.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.Theodore Isaac Rubin
What is love? As far as I can tell, is is passion, admiration, and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you dont have to die to go to heaven.William Wharton
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential - - For the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.S? ren Kierkegaard
Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.Calvin Miller, The Singer Trilogy
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.The Dalai Lama
Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.Benjamin Franklin, In response to the situation of the colonists
Lust of power burns more fiercely than all the passions combined.Blessing Irish
