Passion Quotes - Page 30

Work for your own soul's sake.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring how to excel.

Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist.

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.

The empowerment journey that is critical to your healing - and to your life - comes from progressing through the deep waters of your dark passions and continuing onward to discover not what has been taken from you, but what you have yet to give and who you have yet to become.

Our culture says that ruthless competition is the key to success. Jesus says that ruthless compassion is the purpose of our journey.

Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money.

Every passion has its destiny.

Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money.

If you focus all of your emotional passion on your children and you neglect the relationship that brought that family into existence... eventually, things can go really, really wrong.

Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.

Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

I think if you have a passion for what you do then there are no limitations on how long or how much you can accomplish.

Remember that you don't have to like or admire someone to feel compassion for that person. All you have to do is wish for that person to be happy.

The intellectual is always showing off, the lover is always getting lost. The intellectual runs away. afraid of drowning; the whole business of love is to drown in the sea. Intellectuals plan their repose; lovers are ashamed to rest. The lover is always alone. even surrounded by people; like water and oil, he remains apart. The man who goes to the trouble of giving advice to a lover get nothing. He's mocked by passion. Love is like musk. It attracts attention. Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.

We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer's nature

Passion is like genius: a miracle.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Everyone responds to kindness.

Here then is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy.

Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else.

Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile.