Quotes About Passion

Passion is hard to define, but I know it when I see it.

Los lideres deben discutir el proceso con regularidad. Si el corazon de los lideres no late con pasion por eso, la gente no lo tomara en cuenta. Si el piano ministerial es confuso Para los lideres, ni siquiera lo consideraran los miembros de la congregacion.

My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.

Sex is more than an act of pleasure, it's the ability to be able to feel so close to a person, so connected, so comfortable that it's almost breathtaking to the point you feel you can't take it. And at this moment you're a part of them.

Love flies, runs, and rejoices. It is free and nothing can hold it back.

Increase this love in me, that in my innermost being I may taste the sweetness of your love. Melt my heart that I may swim in your love...Let me sing the song of your love and follow you into heaven, my beloved. Let my soul soar in your praise and rejoice in your love. Let me love you more than myself, and love myself only in you.

Let all your thoughts be with the Most High, and direct your humble prayers unceasingly to Christ. If you cannot contemplate high and heavenly things, take refuge in the Passion of Christ, and love to dwell within His Sacred Wounds. For if you devoutly seek the Wounds of Jesus and the precious marks of His Passion, you will find great strength in all troubles.

For true peace of heart is to be found in resisting passion, not in yielding to it. And therefore there is no peace in the heart of a man who is carnal, nor in him who is given up to the things that are without him, but only in him who is fervent towards God and living the life of the Spirit.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.

Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because it is not in a sensitive potency in which are all passions. Nor is it a habit, because a habit is removed with difficulty; charity, however, is easily lost through one act of mortal sin. Therefore charity is not something created in the soul.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

yet so that envy is not to be taken for a passion, but for a will resisting the good of another.

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

I expect Custer was crazy enough to believe he would win, being the type of man who carries the whole world within his own head and thus when his passion is aroused and floods his mind, reality is utterly drowned.

What it means is you will fight until you're all used up. Far from being sour, life is so sweet you will live it to the hilt and be consumed by it.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Passion against Reason, Reason against Faith, Faith against the Devil, and my Conscience against all.