Quotes About Passion

We love what we love in spite of ourselves, toward something larger and more generous than the velvet prison of self.

Fun was far more difficult to get a handle on than zeal.

He put his hand on my waist, and my heart began to pound, a rougher rhythm than the music. I held my skirt. Our free hands met. His felt warm and comforting and unsettling and bewildering--all at once.

So the ultimate winner in the game of business is not necessarily the person with the most power or the most money or the most fame. Rather it's the person who loves his or her work.....

With the sound of waves outside, the bed seemed like our own Guld and we were swimmers. Front to front, out bodies slicked with sweat, each swimming and stroking, one against the other. We rode the waves to the crests, then plummeted down, only to ride the wave to the next breaker. We swam against the current that threatened to pull us under.

The person in the song is really addressing a powerful and constant state of yearning more than he is any real lover. It's the state of this yearning that torments him, yet he also loves his torment. He needs it. Because he understands that being able to feel this yearning so exquisitely is his secret strength.

Gather the best you have to offer and create a heartfelt, prosperous life full of purpose.

want to lose myself in the work.' Andrew

To be really good at something, you can't be married. I believe that, along with Katharine Hepburn.

I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

Just remember, Every day of your lives, you must always be sure what you're fighting for.

We live a short enough time on this earth. A man should do what he loves.

What a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and running water.

I hate and I love. Why I do so, perhaps you ask. I know not, but I feel it and I am in torment.

Gaius Valerius Catullus

Poor Catullus, you should cease your folly.

Not unknown am I to the goddess [Venus] who mingles with her cares a sweet bitterness.

Odi et amo. Quare I'd faciam, fortasse requiris.

Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio. des fieri sentio et excrucior. I hate and I love. You may ask, why I do this. I do not know. But I sense that I do and it pains me.

I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

En este amor no entré por desvarío, ni lo traté, como otros, con engaños, ni fue por elección de mi albedrío: desde mis tiernos y primeros años a aquella parte m'enclinó mi estrella y aquel fiero destino de mis daños.

Geeky people often have. . . . a mind with its own heartbeat.

Not that there's anything wrong with geeky," Link says before Dad has a chance to. Geeky is one of Dad's favorite words, and I listen with glee to my brother's imitation of our father: "Geeky people often have that which is most valuable in this life." Link pauses here for effect, so that James and I can join in, shouting Dad's favorite phrase, "A mind with its own heartbeat.