Quotes About Passion

Nowadays I just don't care; I've taken the Frank Zappa stance. I am who I am! Some love me, some loathe me, some respect me and some despise me. But after all that's been, I still love the insane! As they're exciting, dangerous and highly explosive! For me mad dogs are gentlemen.

Making time for what you really want to do can be a full-time job, but only if you allow it to be.

Feelings are the directional impulses of your soul. Your soul always wants you to go into the direction of greater joy.

When you believe in yourself with a passion then success can be spontaneous.

Thought and passion = successful manifesting of wishes...

When we give up our dreams then we are merely existing and not living.

With a clear idea of what you want in life, you need to actively pursue your dream. Half-hearted attempts will not work.

It is how hard you want, what you want that gets it.

When it comes to creating million dollar inventive ideas, most people stop short of reaching the mother stratum while mining their own seam of gold! Genius takes effort and passion.

My aspirations never lay with boxing, but that's the way I was pushed. I was still a choirboy when I started boxing because I remember I went to choir practice every Wednesday night. I missed some Wednesday nights if I was boxing and then when I missed it I'd have to tell the choirmaster why. I had a battle between the choir and boxing. When my voice inevitably broke, boxing won.

Any work for God that has less than a passion for Jesus Christ as its motive will end in crushing heartbreak and discouragement.

I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am. ... I am a librarian ... ! Stephen Sommers (The Mummy, 1999. Line spoken by Rachel Weisz as Evie Carnahan)

Loving you is not a choice, It's who I am. Loving you is not a choice And not much reason to rejoice, But it gives me purpose Gives me voice to say to the world: This is why I live You are why I live. Loving you is why I do The things I do Loving you is not in my control. But loving you, I have a goal For what's left of my life... I would live, And I would die for you.

Art is edited truth — edited to give it shape, rhythm, speed and punch. I've quoted the Communist dictum before: "If it isn't art, it isn't propaganda." Art is skill in the service of passion.

Through man's love and woman's love Moons and tides move Which fuse those islands, lying face to face. Mixing in naked passion, Those who naked new life fashion Are themselves reborn in naked grace.

I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.

There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn't play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.

I made a resolution I would throw myself into the Danube if I didn't ask you to make love with me today.

I was never into sports, and my passion was the arts as long as I could remember.

embrace of the kind of profound exuberance

When you can live forever what do you live for?

Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you

Romeo wouldn't change his mind. That's why people still remembered his name, always twined with hers