Motivational Quotes

Passion

As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences.

- Stowell, Joseph

Best Quotes about Passion

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive'nows.'

Sue Halpern

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

Byron, Lord

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

Eliot, George

I had learnt to seek intensityàmore of life, a concentrated sense of life.

Nina Berberova

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Pascal, Blaise

10.

Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.

Saying

11.

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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If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

Campbell, Joseph

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Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Cowper, William

15.

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

16.

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Nightingale, Earl

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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Voltaire

18.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

19.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

20.

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

Diderot, Denis

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

22.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Cicero

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Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

27.

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music -- the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Miller, Henry

28.

Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.

Miedzian, Myriam

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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

Kundera, Milan

30.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

31.

There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

Viscott, David

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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

Smith, Eugene W.

33.

You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.

Randy Pausch

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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 mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Denis Diderot

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The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Cousins, Norman

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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

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

41.

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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I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.

Brett, George

43.

I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

Retton, Mary Lou

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

Pound, Ezra

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It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Rebecca West

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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Hegel, Georg