Quotes About Passion

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

He who wishes to fulfill his mission in the world must be a man of one idea, one great overmastering purpose, overshadowing all his aims, and guiding and controlling his entire life.

I care not what your education is, elaborate or nothing, what your mental calibre is, great or small, that man who concentrates all his energies of body, mind and soul in one direction is a tremendous man.

I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

What our deepest self craves is not mere enjoyment, but some supreme purpose that will enlist all our powers and give unity and direction to our life.

The proper function of man is to live-not to exist.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional forms and ceremonies.

When love is out of your life, you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor that's going, you have such vitality to do things, big things, because love is goosing you all the time.

What is it that love does to a woman? Without it, she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.

There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.

Life is a romantic business, but you have to make the romance.

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose. ... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is. ... Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

Man is happy only as he finds a work worth doing-and does it well.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Acting is happy agony.

Happy is the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.

Hatred seems to operate on the same glands as love; it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.