Quotes About Passions

Misfortune prompts us to summon our utmost strength to oppose grief and recover tranquility, while prosperity hurries us away until we are overwhelmed by our passions. Queen Margot Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. La Rochefoucault We promise according to our hopes; we perform according to our fears. I sometimes wonder is the esprit, gaiety, intellectual seriousness and serious stylishness of the earlier period was the reflex of poverty and shared hardship.

Yet—some Frenchman had written—"absence diminishes commonplace passions and enhances great ones.

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

The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.

Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.

The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.

Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.

It is with our Passions, as it is with Fire and Water, they are 'Good Servants,' but 'Bad Masters.'

Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.

Humans have terrible passions that can go either way: create or destroy, it all depends on where they emerge. Art is not a tranquil occupation. What is peaceful about wrestling with nothingness? If the process isn't brutal, it's just decor. Your choice: violence towards others, or violence to yourself?

Man's nature, his passions, and anxieties are a cultural product; as a matter of fact, man himself is the most important creation and achievement of the continuous human effort, the record of which we call history.

Man transfers his own passions and qualities to the idol. The more he impoverishes himself, the greater and stronger becomes the idol.

The necessity to find ever-new solutions for the contradictions in his existence, to find ever-higher forms of unity with nature, his fellowmen and himself, is the source of all psychic forces which motivate man, of all his passions, affects and anxieties.

The way we store energy is through our desires, values, passions, hopes, dreams, and aspirations, and ultimately our greatest capacity for energy storage is through what we love.

we do not understand history, are we not bound to repeat the mistakes our fathers made?" "Some would say we will make those mistakes in any case," I answered, "for the same passions that motivated our fathers motivate us, and young people

Her strong passions were compromised by the limited nature of her objectives. My mother had seen this at an early stage; it was to Dolly's advantage that she had never seen it at all. She needed a guide and had never found one; she needed a benevolent elder, who would watch over her and correct her.

For whatever reason, you gravitate to certain subjects, and I read a lot of history.

I collect Hot Wheels. I collect glass. I collect coins. And I collect cards.

Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree.

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

It is a very bad idea for governments to create arbitrary and unfair outcomes, or outcomes resulting from the passions and whims of the government rather than from the law, just because they have the power to do so.

The principles and passions of men are always the same and lead to the same result, varying only according to the circumstances in which they are placed.

There's this mythology that parents are supposed to be parents 24/7 and are supposed to be completely fulfilled by their kids. That's not the case. We need to make our own passions a priority.

It's not that I am a difficult person; it's just that I have certain strong likes and dislikes.