Quotes About Passion

whatever I ended up doing with my life,I wanted to people feel the way this music was making me feel.

I wanted to be the best at whatever it was that was in front of me.

Mihi mori lucrum--For me to die is a gain. To die, murdered by the haters of Jesus Christ, would be my gain. All my fervent desires have always been to die in a hospital as a poor man, or on the scaffold as a martyr, murdered by enemies because of the most holy religion that we profess and preach. I should like to seal with my blood the virtues and truths which I have preached and taught.

If certain individuals fall in love from motives of convenience, they can be contrasted with plenty of others in whom passion seems principally aroused by the intensity of administrative difficulties in procuring its satisfaction.

In fact, so far as 'love' was concerned, I had been living for some years past in a rather makeshift manner. This was not because I felt the matter to be of little interest, like a man who hardly cares what he eats provided hunger is satisfied, or one prepared to discuss painting, should the subject arise, though never tempted to enter a picture gallery. On the contrary, my interest in love was keen enough, but the thing itself seemed not particularly simple to come by.

All right,' said Moreland, 'love, then. Is it better to love somebody and not have them, or have somebody and not love them? I mean from the point of view of action – living intensely. Does action consist in having or loving? In having – naturally – it might first appear. Loving is just emotion, not action at all. But is that correct? I'm not sure.

He did his best to conceal this antipathy, because the one thing he hated, more than constituted authority itself, was to hear constituted authority questioned by anyone but himself. This is perhaps an endemic trait in all who love power, and my father had an absolute passion for power, although he was never in a position to wield it on a notable scale.

Like most people in rebellion, he was more than half in love with what he was rebelling against.

If certain individuals fall in love from motives of convenience, they can be contrasted with plenty of others in whom passion seems principally aroused by the intensity of administrative difficulty in procuring its satisfaction.

In one room the carpet had been rolled back, and a hunchback wearing a velvet smoking-jacket was playing an accordion, writhing backwards and forwards as he attacked his instrument with demiurgic frenzy.

Moreland could never get used to the fact that most people—in this particular case, Templer—lead lives in which the arts play no part whatsoever.

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed.

Belief #6: Work is play. Do you know any person who has achieved massive success by doing what he hates? I don't. One of the keys to success is making a successful marriage between what you do and what you love. Pablo Picasso once said, "When I work, I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired." Maybe

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Belief #6: Work is play.

Mark Twain said, "The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.

When we love completely, we feel alive, but

meaning equals emotion, and emotion equals life.

I've found that if you try to figure out a percentage to save without really knowing what you're saving for, it's not going to happen. The secret is to know what you truly want and why you want it, and make it a burning passion.

I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he has to tell a story, but because he has a story to tell. The novelist's first novel will generally have sprung from the right cause.

I don't like anybody or anything, said Lucinda. Yes, you do;--you like horses to ride, and dresses to wear.

Love is involuntary. It does not often run in a yoke with prudence.