Quotes About Passion

Ah, Tania, nerede ÅŸimdi senin o s?cak yar???n, o kal?n ve a??r jartiyerlerin, yumuÅŸak ve dolgun uyluklar?n? On beÅŸ santim uzunluÄŸunda bir kemik var kam???mda. Dölümle doldurup ütüleyeceÄŸim am?ndaki her k?r???kl???, Tania. Karn?nda sanc?yla ve rahmin ters yüz edilmiÅŸ halde göndereceÄŸim seni Sylvester'a.

Do anything but let it produce joy. Do anything but let it yield ecstasy.

Seni düzüyorum Tania, düzülmüÅŸ kalas?n diye.

Eres presa de un vértigo espiritual, te tambaleas al borde del precipicio, se te ponen los pelos de punta, no puedes creer que bajo tus pies haya un abismo insondable. Se debe a un exceso de entusiasmo, a un deseo apasionado de abrazar a la gente, de mostrarles tu amor. Cuanto más tiendes tus brazos hacia el mundo, más se retira.

The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by the object of its love.

El amor perfecto es una especie de autodestrucción, un ausentarse de uno mismo; es una especie de muerte voluntaria en la que el amante muere para sí mismo, y para todos sus intereses, y ni siquiera piensa ni se preocupa más por ellos, y no tiene más interés que agradar y complacer al objeto de su amor.

Qué placer infinito debe ser perderse en Él, y, al ser, por así decirlo, tragado en la imponente sensación de su bondad, ofrecernos como sacrificio vivo, siempre ascendiendo hacia Él en llamas de amor!

Love is that powerful and prevalent passion by which all the faculties and inclinations of the soul are determined, and on which both its perfection and happiness depend. The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by the object of its love: he who loveth mean and sordid things doth thereby become base and vile; but a noble and well-placed affection doth advance and improve the spirit unto a conformity with the perfections which it loves.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

Its reward is in the doing, And the rapture of pursuing Is the prize

Poor, deluded Shawondasee! 'T was no woman that you gazed at, 'T was no maiden that you sighed for, 'T was the prairie dandelion That through all the dreamy Summer You had gazed at with such longing, You had sighed for with such passion, And had puffed away forever, Blown into the air with sighing. Ah! deluded Shawondasee!

It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.

Many men have a passion for food or drink or sex or making money. For Lyndon [Johnson] it was politics. It was his natural element, what literally kept him alive.

So have I seen Passion and Vanity stamping the living magnanimous earth, but the earth did not alter her tides and her seasons for that.

Oh, thou clear spirit, of thy fire thou madest me, and like a true child of fire, I breathe it back to thee.

Passion, and passion in its profoundest, is not a thing demanding a palatial stage whereon to play its part. Down among the groundlings, among the beggars and rakers of the garbage, profound passion is enacted. And the circumstances that provoke it, however trivial or mean, are no measure of its power. In the present instance the stage is a scrubbed gun deck, and one of the external provocations a man-of-war's-man's spilled soup.

I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.

I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly.

A couple of years ago, right before I made 'Down to You,' there was a moment when I questioned what I was doing and if it meant anything. I felt like I wasn't accomplishing anything, that the goals I'd set were silly goals. Finally, I realized I just loved acting. It was a very clear moment, and my whole life changed then.

I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.

If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.

I was in bands many years ago, so that's where it started. I played in bands, sang backing vocals and all the rest of it.

A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I thought of finding another job. I started training and riding horses and got consumed by that. It was a boon in disguise.

When I started painting 17 years ago, I never imagined that anyone would look at my work or buy my pieces. But now I do about 14 exhibitions each year.