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Passion

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

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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.

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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

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

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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

Eliot, George

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Cowper, William

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

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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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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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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

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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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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Robert Sternberg

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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.