Quotes About Passion

I began to write again. I wrote just for the fuck of it.

Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy". This was the dictum of Siegbert Tarrasch, one of the greatest chessmasters of all time, after 50 years of chess playing.

Many people work very hard at the things they do for fun.

The thing I remember best about successful people I've met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they're doing and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what they're doing, and they love it in front of others.

Investment and speculation are said to be two different things, and the prudent man is advised to engage in the one and avoid the other. This is something like explaining to the troubled adolescent that Love and Passion are two different things. He perceives that they are different, but they don't seem quite different enough to clear up his problems.

Passion is born when you catch a glimpse of your true potential.

I had no fear, only one will and one desire. I was going to do it for him.

I'm not into business at all.

We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.

Somewhere on the way up I got attached to the guitar.

I loved him in the way young people are mad for those they wish to resemble.

The love we give is often impetuous, beguiled by superficial things, and if those things alter, it could fade. Familiarity alone can be enough to exhaust our enthusiasm.

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

Music is an outburst of the soul.

Always stick to your likings - there are profound reasons for them

Muic is the outburst of the soul.

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

L'amour, bande de connards ! A quoi ça rime, sinon, de vivre ?

mood other than satisfaction and that is rage.

Al fin y al cabo, los escritores son criaturas raras, y más si intentan ganarse la vida escribiendo.

It has been curiously remarked by St. Andrew Avellino that those who have a special devotion to the Passion generally die quiet and sweet deaths, as the Virgin Mary, St. John the Evangelist, and St. Mary Magdalen did. Certainly it is remarkable that, while most of those close to Our Lord died violent deaths, the three who assisted at Calvary should have died so softly, as if already their real death had been died there.

Teachers work twice as hard as the general public will ever imagine.

In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like 'Gone With the Wind.' And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but there's something so absolutely romantic about it.