Quotes About Passion

ACCORDING TO THE Latin root of the word, 'religion' would mean 'to bind again'. Now how does the concept of binding or tying up come to be applied as the common term for all our various teachings? The common enemy of all religious disciplines, the target of all moral precepts laid down by the great teachers of mankind, is selfishness of mind. For it is just this which causes ignorance, anger and passion which are at the root of all the troubles of the world.

Olivia's mouth had gone too dry to speak. Besides, what was she to say, "His kisses thrill me, his touch makes my skin heat, he knows how to make my soul shatter apart—but he's just not good husband material"?

Feelings are energy

A veces me ha pasado que me entusiasmo con lo que leo y siento el deseo de vivirlo inmediatamente. Hace años, por ejemplo, cuando terminé El gran Gatsby, sentí impulsos de ser orgulloso y apasionado y de estar a la altura de mis ilusiones. Me sentía yo también elegante y un poco desesperado pero capaz de todo. Es como un clima, una atmósfera, o mejor un sentimiento, y esa impresión dura lo que duran los ecos de una música, siempre ha sido algo fugaz.

Pero cuando estaba con una mujer, y le gustaba el modo que tenía de hablar, se la llevaba a la cama por el entusiasmo que le provocaba verla usar el pretérito perfecto del indicativo, como si a presencia del pasado en el presente justificara cualquier pasión.

La ética es como el amor. Se vive en presente, las consecuencias no importan. Si uno piensa en el pasado es porque ya perdió la pasión...

We have to find a better way for work to work. The seven-day workweek is shaping up as a personal, societal, and business disaster. It robs people of passion and pleasure, destroys family and community stability, and sets up business organizations to ultimately fail once they've burned out their employees and burned through ever more manipulative and oppressive strategies.

I distinguish two types of human beings, Love people, who love the sky and the flowers, and Power People, who are essentially sold on naked power.

In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy choice.

Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow, something will happen, something you couldn't plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall.

Passionately obsessed by anything we love--an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love....

The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.

Real love stories never have endings.

For each of them, the most important thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which they most loved to do...

You find what you love and you learn everything about it. You bet your life on what you know and run from safety, off your mountain into the air, trusting the Principle of Flight to bring you soaring up on lift you cannot see with your eyes.

Tell him I said that he will know when he's my age that books aren't written on whims or old promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writing's a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back.

In order to live free and happily,    you must sacrifice       boredom.                    It is not always an easy                       sacrifice

For each of them, the most important thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which they most loved to do, and that was to fly.

In the days that followed, Jonathan saw that there was as much to learn about flight in this place as there had been in the life behind him. But with a difference. Here were gulls who thought as he thought. For each of them, the most important thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which they most loved to do, and that was to fly. They were magnificent birds, all of them, and they spent hour after hour every day practicing flight, testing advanced aeronautics.

Åžu an olduÄŸunuz kiÅŸi olabilmek için hayat?n?z? adad?n?z. Buna deÄŸdi mi?

You find what you love and you learn everything about it. You bet your life on what you know and you run from safety, off your mountain into the air, trusting the Principle of Flight to bring you soaring up on lift you cannot see with your eyes.

In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Un écrivain professionnel est un amateur qui n'a pas renoncé.

No cualquier hombre (permítanme una restricción y cierto romanticismo) es capaz de volar, sino aquel que siente que volar es su vida, que sabe que el cielo no es un lugar de trabajo o de diversión, sino que es su casa.