Passion Quotes
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle - Class respectability.Oscar Wilde
Facts are stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.John Adams
Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.Rita Mae Brown
It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.Eric Hoffe
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.Andr Gide
Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.Barbara Garrison
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.The Dalai Lama
Compassion is no substitute for justice.Rush Limbaugh
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.C. S. Lewis
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.Benjamin Disraeli, campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27, 1832
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.Robert Francis Kennedy
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - - when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions - - It becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.Isaac Bashevis Singe
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
If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength.La Rochefoucauld
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - How passionately I hate them.Albert Einstein
The worst sin - Perhaps the only sin - Passion can commit, is to be joyless.Dorothy L. Sayers, O Magazine, September 2003
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
This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal - Intellect suggests one course, and our heart or intuition, another.Robert
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
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others history, men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.Aldous Huxley
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.G. W. F. Hegel
Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.Dean Koontz
The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.George Sand
What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ... Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.Ivan Pavlov
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.Dean Koontz
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.George Santayana
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
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
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.George Washington Carve
The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.Mark Twain
Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species.Dalai Lama, The Times (1999)
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.Chuang - Tzu, On Leveling All Things
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.Abraham Joshua Heschel
