Quotes About Passions

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up the rest.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than to our strength.

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled-secure from violent passions or temptations to evil-those who have never needed to struggle all night with the angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two moments together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost Divine in its infinity.

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.

Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff.

I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue.

Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power, and money, as minorities; and are liable and likely to be equally - perhaps more than equally, because more boldly - rapacious, tyrannical and unprincipled, if intrusted with power.

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is the ocean of life, and the grave is the ocean of distress

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.

With the vast majority of mankind the fine states of these passions are not even known — the states in which they emerge from subconsciousness. When a bubble is rising from the bottom of the lake, we do not see it, nor even when it is nearly come to the surface; it is only when it bursts and makes a ripple that we know it is there.