Quotes About Passion

How many people ever get a chance to do something that they really believe in?

I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.

Got ants in my pants and I need to dance, so big fine mama, come give me a chance.

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.

You only get a chance to live your dream once, and I'm living mine right now.

All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.

When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously.

I'm looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work - juggle, tap dance, anything I want.

Everybody loves something, even if it's only tortillas.

To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our own terms, to lead a more passionate, full, and delightful life than that, we must realize we can endure a lot of pain and pleasure for the sake of finding out who we are and what this world is. (The Wisdom of No Escape, p. 3)

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Matt knew only that he must see her again, and forever.

But the point was to be carefree, independent. Artists can't be hampered by the dailiness of ordinary life--Tony felt strongly about that. Doing the same things every day, forever bothered about money. Art has to be freed from all that.

Ódio vulcânico, tórrido, não o frio dos chineses que se consome com a vingança.

In sexual love we seek our own pleasure through the intermediary of another's body. In non-sexual love, we seek our own pleasure through the intermediary of an idea we have. The onanist may be an abject creature but in truth he is the logical expression of the lover. He is the only one who neither diguises nor deludes himself.

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

the drama upon the stage is sometimes no more than an intensification of the rituals within our own hearts.

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

Then I fell in love and everything went to hell.

no, I thought, only what it makes you do, clawing at the trees, splintering the bark like a tomcat, the blind and violent need of it, a joy, but who would not want to be relieved of it. I pity

fiction is a harsher, more demanding mistress than fact.

Both as unique event and as linked to others, an experience is thus more than a naked wish or a casual perception; it is an organization of passionate demands, persistent ways of seeing, and objective realities that will not be denied.

It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.

Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The same is true of thoughts as of passions. When your mind wanders, like a child, your will must bring it back, like a mother. [. . .] The will-parent must discipline the mind-child, avoiding both the opposite extremes commonly made in disciplining either children or thoughts: tyranny or permissiveness.