Motivational Quotes

Passion

I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.

- Bernanos, Georges

Best Quotes about Passion

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

May, Rollo

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Hoffer, Eric

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

Adams, Thomas

Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.

Bhagavad Gita

If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Bernanos, Georges

10.

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

Pasternak, Boris

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In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

13.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

14.

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

15.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

Fellini, Frederico

16.

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Hoffer, Eric

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The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another

Merton, Thomas

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The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.

Salma Hayek

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Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.

Oprah Winfrey

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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Sade, Marquis De

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You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Eckhart, Meister

25.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

26.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

27.

You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more.

Randy Pausch

28.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

Eliot, George

29.

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

Herzen, Alexander

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It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate about filmmaking. It's what I love to do.

Lee, Spike

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To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.

Barthes, Roland

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She is so totally absorbed in a vocation -- both a gift and a mastering passion -- that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.

Will, George F.

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The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater ;burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.

Stainback, Arthur H.

34.

Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

Sade, Marquis De

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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Jung, Carl

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Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

Penn, William

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

Seneca

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Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers.

Randy Pausch

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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

Cowper, William

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Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.