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Passion

Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Nina Berberova

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

Robert Sternberg

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

Cicero

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Schaeffer, Francis

The happiness in this life does not consist of being devoid of passion, but mastering them.

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

Denis Diderot

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

Penn, William

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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 fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Hegel, Georg

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None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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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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In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Cowper, William

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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

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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 was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

Saul Bellow

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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

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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

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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

Stowell, Joseph

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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

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

Voltaire

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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

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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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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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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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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell