Quotes on Passion

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.

Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

Joy & Satisfaction Show Up More Frequently & on Time when you have Passion

When we conquer our fears, we discover a boundless, bottomless, inexhaustible well of passion.

Being driven is not the same as being passionate. Passion is a love for the journey. Drive is a need to reach the destination.

Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.

It is in the realm of uncertainty, that your passion is found.

What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of life is to be found in passion—romantic passion, religious passion, passion for work and for play, passionate commitments in the face of what reason knows to be meaningless.

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

The minds of men are mirrors to one another, not only because they reflect each other's emotions, but also because those rays of passions, sentiments and opinions may be often reverberated, and may decay away by insensible degrees.

Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.

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.

The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.

I am never happier than when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion

As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real satisfactions of life, and without it, man is unfinished, and unhappy.

When, in adoration, we look at the consecrated Host, the sign of creation speaks to us. And so, we encounter the greatness of his gift; but we also encounter the Passion, the Cross of Jesus and his Resurrection. Through this gaze of adoration, he draws us toward himself, within his mystery, through which he wants to transform us as he transformed the Host.

Self-mastery is a challenge for every individual. Only we can control our appetites and passions. Self-mastery cannot be bought by money or fame. It is the ultimate test of our character. It requires climbing out of the deep valleys of our lives and scaling our own Mount Everests.

The great problem with poisoning by Bitterness was that the passions - hatred, love, despair, enthusiasm, curiosity - also ceased to manifest themselves. After a while, the embittered person felt no desire at all. They lacked the will either to live or to die, that was the problem.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.