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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Casals, Pablo

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

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

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Denis Diderot

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Eliot, George

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

May, Rollo

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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.

Wooden, John

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell