Quotes About Passions

Have courage," we often say to one another. Courage is a spiritual virtue. The word courage comes from the Latin word cor, which means "heart. A courageous act is an act coming from the heart. A courageous word is a word arising from the heart. The heart, however, is not just the place where our emotions are located. The heart is the centre of our being, the centre of all thoughts, feelings, passions, and decisions.

Her passions were indeed equally violent, whichever way they inclined; for as she could be extremely angry, so could she be altogether as fond.

This is the melting-pot, the seat of a great human experiment. Beautiful words, full of noble, idealistic sentiment. Actually we are a vulgar, pushing mob whose passions are easily mobilized by demagogues, newspaper men, religious quacks, agitators and such like. To call this a society of free peoples is blasphemous

Fierce in his soul was the struggle and tumult of passions contending; Love triumphant and crowned, and friendship wounded and bleeding, Passionate cries of desire, and importunate pleadings of duty!

This slavery breeds ugly passions in man.

My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her, 'Don't be an actress.' My son loves guitar and loves to be in a band and wants his iTunes downloaded with all this old-school hip-hop so he understands where hip-hop came from.

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

When I was young, I loved gymnastics, but I discovered when I was 15 that I wanted a teenage life.

I didn't want my daughter to feel culturally isolated in the pursuit of her studies as I had as a young girl. I didn't want her to give up on her passions just because she didn't see anyone else like her in the classroom.

I am a husband, son and father, a reader, a traveller, a fan, and also a cook.

I still don't know what I'm going to be. I love acting. I would love to be an English teacher. I would love to be a housewife and have a chateau in the South of France, I would love to be a singer that travels to cafes around different towns.

What I've discovered is that from football fans to undertakers, secret agents to marble-players and politicians, we all are part of at least one tribe. By tribes, I'm talking anthropologically; these groups are determined less by genes and more by the work they do or the passions they pursue.

A man's weakest spots are almost always closest to his passions.

he looked forward to the day when all men could free themselves from the "tyrant of spirits," when all appetites would be controlled, all passions subdued, and "mind, all conquering mind," would rule the world.

Blessed is the man who, having subdued all his passions, performeth with his active faculties all the functions of life, unconcerned about the event Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward. Perform thy duty, abandon all thought of the consequence, and make the event equal, whether it terminate in good or evil; for such an equality is called yoga.

times of such commotion as the present, while the passions of men are worked up to an uncommon pitch, there is great danger of fatal extremes. The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them…very naturally leads to a contempt and disregard for all authority.

I've grown up in a small town, and I played a lot of sports, so it was always between music and sports. People would ask me, 'What would you choose?' And I was always like, 'I don't know.'

All passions that allow themselves to be savored and digested are only mediocre. -from Of sadness

Las pasiones no son sino ideas en su desarrollo inicial: son atributo de la juventud del corazón, y tonto sería quien pensara que han de inquietarle toda la vida: mochos ríos tranquilos nacen como cascadas tumultuosas, pero ninguno llega hasta el mar turbulento y coronado de espuma.

I have carried only a few ideas out of life's storm - and not one feeling. I have long lived according to the head, not the heart. I consider and analyze my personal passions and actions with a strict curiosity, but without sympathy. There are two people within me: one who lives in the full sense of the word, and the other who reasons and judges him.

Leidenschaften sind nichts anderes als Ideen in ihrem ersten Entwicklungsstadium: sie gehören zur Jugend des Herzens, und ein Dummkopf ist derjenige, der meint, von ihnen ein Leben lang erregt zu werden: viele ruhige Flüsse beginnen als rauschende Wasserfälle, doch keiner springt und schäumt bis zum Meer.

Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but only half understand. And history is terrible because it so often ends up a playground for the immature; a playground for the young Nero, a playground for the young Bonaparte, a playground for the easily roused mobs of children whose simulated passions and simplistic poses suddenly metamorphose into a catastrophically real reality.

Tomas se disait: coucher avec une femme et dormir avec elle, voilà deux passions non seulement différentes mais presque contradictoires. L'amour ne se manifeste pas par le désir de faire l'amour (ce désir s'applique à une innombrable mutitude de femmes) mais par le désir du sommeil partagé (ce désir-là ne concerne qu'une seule femme).

I love Broadway. And, I listen to country music, which I think a lot of people find surprising.