Quotes on Passion

In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy that is all the stronger for being constrained, controlled and compressed.

Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.

Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

Live each moment as if you were going to die the next, and then there will be a great intensity and a great passion. You will be aflame with life. That being aflame is what being divine is to me.

Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God's thoughts after Him: to desire the things He desires, to love the things He loves, to will the things He wills.

The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.

As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus.

Purpose is the most powerful motivator in the world. The secret of passion truly is purpose.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide, So am I driven by breath of her renown Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive Where I may have fruition of her love.

To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.

I love thee with the passion put to use_x000D_ _x000D_ In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. _x000D_ _x000D_ I love thee with a love I seemed to lose_x000D_ _x000D_ With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath, _x000D_ _x000D_ Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose, _x000D_ _x000D_ I shall but love thee better after death.

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege to love all.

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.

There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.