Quotes About Passion

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

It does not matter much what a man hates, provided he hates something.

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

The devil's name is Dullness.

Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.

Oh! may each youthful bosom, catch the sacred fire.

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair.

I don't ever want to work on something unless I feel really passionate about it and know I can give everything to it; otherwise it's not truthful and I hate that.

My main message is to preach God's word, pure and truthful. But also make it swaggalicious.

Truthfully, I just love the game of football and I'm just so locked in on doing my job that I kind of forget it's the Super Bowl.

So long as you do it truthfully, music is not to be judged.

I just love the pressure, truthfully, man.

There's an old hymn called 'How Can I Keep from Singing?' That's what writing feels like to me. I have to write. It's intrinsic to who I am. So it was a natural choice for me to try to pursue writing as a career. Truthfully, though, I still daydream about how fun it would be to ride on the back of a garbage truck.

One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library.

I always say that I don't believe I'm a chef. I try to be a storyteller.

In order to keep my creativity alive, I just try to enjoy life to the fullest.

Make your heart bleed! Put your soul into that damn thing. And try new things.

I live my normal life. I love what I do, and try to look after myself as much as I can.

I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.

I'm not goal-oriented so much as I'm constantly aware of what I'm passionate about, and I'm constantly updating the list. I envision many possible futures for myself where I could be happy, so I just try to keep my passions alive.