Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Nina Berberova

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

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Penn, William

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, Why am I doing this? It comes down to passion.

St. James, Lyn

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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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I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.

Slaney, Mary Decker

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

Jung, Carl

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

Sue Halpern

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Bette Davis

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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Diderot, Denis

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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

D. H. Lawrence

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When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

Margery Allingham

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Eliot, George

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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Johnson, Samuel

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What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

Stanley Kunitz

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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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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

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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Denis Diderot

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The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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.