Quotes About Passion

The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people too many directions to go. I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty but full of possibility.

librarians should "read as a drunkard drinks or as a bird sings or a cat sleeps or a dog responds to an invitation to go walking, not from conscience or training, but because they'd rather do it than anything else in the world.

I suppose I do have one embarrassing passion- I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately.

I want full-on emotional, sexual, spiritual passion—not the torments of fights and jealousies, but the power of engaging deeply, from the bottom of my heart, with my lover's heart, with lots of ebb and flow in both passion and friendship, periods of great agreement and great distance, but always coming back to each other, to self, to commitment, together.

Fury. A vital passion in every healthy persons life, unless you are dead, you have to be bloody furious.

Sparks are warm while they last.

tendency to be anxious. Sex that is self-focussed, performance-oriented, with little emotional openness, could be labelled 'sealed off' sex; it signals avoidant tendencies. I would add that energetic, forceful, 'fight it all out' passion is what one might call 'squabble sex' and might reflect an attacking tendency.

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

Anything she says will be ok with him -- this she feels instinctively. She looks up and meets his eyes: eagle against the sky, his eyes boring into her. He leans over and kisses her, first lightly, then his arms circles her waist and his hand grasps a shoulder blade, pulling her up and closer. Inside her a diamond, the glittering spot where her feelings have solidified into the hardest substance on earth, catches fire and melts.

Accountable Authentic Collaborative Courageous Passionate Lifelong learner Welcomes feedback Biased toward action Solution oriented Change agent

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art

My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.

When I asked him what he meant by desire, he answered, "I mean wanting something very intensely and with longing—having something that you want to get and that you don't want to live without, so that you become willing to alter existing habits and conditions, so that they become less important than getting what you want.

Five seconds, and my body's humming. I go half-man, half-machine, and my thoughts go straight to touching her more, to how far I want to go, how far she might want to go, and damn, I start to hurt. No amount of music or hard work will fix this. My body's a beast. A beast that's been held back too long.

If two people love the same thing, she reasoned, then they must love each other, at least a little, even if they never say it.

He and I had a bridge that no one else traveled that made us artistic lovers, passionate without a touch of the flesh. He made me thrive, and valuing that, I could do nothing that would endanger it.

Work is love made plain, whether man's work or woman's work.

She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.

Sometimes if you want something badly enough, you make it happen through sheer force of will.

My first job after college was at Magic Quest, an educational software startup company where I was responsible for writing the content. I found that job somewhat accidentally but after working there a few weeks and loving my job, I decided to pursue a career in technology.

And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!

With wild eyes that had seen freedom.