Passion Quotes - Page 99

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.

That's the very reason why love is eternal, because it is forever renewed. Passions die, love remains.

I think every culture is passionate about food; some are just passionate about food and the food is shitty.

Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.

The Devil endeavours by every means to keep men in error, in the enticement of the passions, in darkness of mind and heart; in pride, avarice, covetousness, envy, hatred, wicked impatience and irritation; in evil despondence, in the abominations of fornication, adultery, theft, false-witness, blasphemy, negligence, slothfulness, and sluggishness.

Calmly take what ill betideth; Patience wins the crown at length: Rich repayment him abideth Who endures in quiet strength. Brave the tamer of the lion; Brave whom conquered kingdoms praise; Bravest he who rules his passions, Who his own impatience sways.

Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.

You can have the 'golden rule' - do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther - where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.

To you who think you are lost or without hope, or who think you have done too much that was too wrong for too long, to every one of you who worry that you are stranded somewhere on the wintry plains of life and have wrecked your handcart in the process, we call out "Jehovah's unrelenting refrain, "My hand is stretched out still" (Isaiah 5:25: 9:17,21). "...His mercy endureth forever, and His hand is stretched out still. His is the pure love of Christ, the charity that never faileth, that compassion which endures even when all other strength disappears".

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

In carrying out e-commerce, the most important thing is to keep doing what you are doing right now with passion, to keep it up.

As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions be, My friend must hate the man that injures me.

Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

Union and Communion: this is the essence of Christianity.

The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations. The least satisfying of desires. A nameless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man. You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

The underlying issues, the psychological motives, in all my movies have been the same, he said. Personal responsibility and friendship, the importance of a compassionate life as opposed to a passionate life.

There is no fire like passion: there is no evil and hatred.

When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.

Someone with less passion and talent and poorer content can totally beat you if they're willing to work longer and harder than you are. Hustle is it.

The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books.

There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest.