Quotes About Passion

You don't decide what your purpose is in life you discover it. Your purpose is your reason for living.

If you do not get the chills when you set your goal you're not setting big enough goals.

Oswald Chambers summed it up well: "If I am devoted to the cause of humanity only, I will soon be exhausted and come to the place where my love will falter; but if I love Jesus Christ personally and passionately, I can serve humanity though men treat me as a doormat."1

I want you so much, he said with such heart-tugging sincerity that to be fair, a translation from Turkish to English would have to flip a coin between want and love.

I bring rage out. I do bring rage out. I always have. I don't know if that's an asset or a liability, but whatever it is, I do.

No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.

I changed into a quiet girl, with an inner life that burned with such ferocity that I had no words to express it.

The official erasure of any existence before enslavement – as if black Americans did not exist before the yolk and the chains and whip – has always created a passion for us. Black people need to find out. We have to find out Who We Are and Where We Come From.

In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.

Toda esa tristeza del tango es lo que ha llevado a gente a afirmar que el tango es «un pensamiento triste que se baila»

If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.

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 be a victim.

They loved each other greatly. Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it. To them - and this made them unusual - the moments when passion visited their doomed human existence like a breath of timelessness were moments of revelation, of even greater understanding of life and of themselves.

Her dark hair was scattered and its beauty stung his eyes like smoke and ate into his heart.

No duermas artista, no duermas, no te entregues al sueño.

The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.

Am un chef incredibil, p?timaÅŸ de via?? ÅŸi a tr?i înseamn? a te avânta înainte, mai sus, c?tre perfecÅ£iunea pe care trebuie s-o atingi.

What must one be, to rave year after year with delirious feverishness about nonexistent, long-extinct themes, and to know nothing, to see nothing around one!

Oh, what love this was, free, unprecedented, unlike anything else! They thought the way other people sing.

Their love was great. Most people experience love without becoming aware of the extraordinary nature of this emotion. But to them—and this made them exceptional—the moments when passion visited their doomed human existence like a breath of eternity were moments of revelation, of continually new discoveries about themselves and life.

I love you beyond mind or memory or measure.

A?k bazen; asla sahip olamayaca??n birini sevmektir.

Se chupó el dedo y lo levantó por encima de su cabeza. Lo volvió a bajar casi de inmediato. Le ardía como si lo tuviera en un horno. —Habrá amor en el aire —concluyó—. Esto está que arde.

Mieux vaudrait apprendre à faire l'amour correctement que de s'abrutir sur un livre d'histoire.