Passion Quotes - Page 118

Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement.

I believe that if you do what you love, things tend to fall in place.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative faculties. He who easily comprehends all that is before him, and soon exhausts any single subject, is always eager for new inquiries; and in proportion as the intellectual eye takes in a wider prospect, it must be gratified with variety, by more rapid flights and bolder excursions.

Passion does not compensate for ignorance.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

I think passion is the magnet to anything.

I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.

I'm dominated by Love, By my passion of love for Love

Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course, and experience has shown that when the protection of public morals is entrusted to its votaries, the consequences are usually appalling.

Passion is born when your heart gets carried away with a purpose greater than yourself.

In my work, I'm passionate about trying different things and being okay if I mess up. Now I'm trying to bring that into my own life.

If light is the spiritual quality of painting, color is surely its heart and passion.

Philanthropy requires thought, action, and passion.

When we’re passionate about something, we innovate, create, and continue on with our dreams.

To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead of faith, upon labor in place of prayer. Most misery is produced by ignorance. Passions sow the seeds of pain.

People ask me why I work so hard and why I have this compassion to reach the top and be great. I respond by telling them, "I work insanely hard because people said I couldn't do it." When someone tells me I can't do something, or that I'll never achieve my goals and visions, I am determined to prove them wrong.

Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent.

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you.

Forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the fumes of human rage, with these out hells and our heavens, so few inches apart, we must be awfully small, and not as strong as we think we are.

Purpose directs passion and passion ignites purpose.

Get as much out of life as you possibly can with all the passion that goes with it. Then give it back with all the love and respect it deserves.

I do not dream of a gentle revolution. My passion runs to the violence of supersession, the ferocity of a life that renounces nothing.