Quotes About Passion

You see, passion alone is a blind power. It's fire without light. It just ignites whatever it touches, good or evil, truth or lies, unselfishness or selfishness, love or lust.

Many saints were made out of passionate sinners—the angry, the hating, the lustful, the cynical; but none were ever made out of the slothful.

There is little passion for anything except pleasure and comfort and security. Indeed, passion is confused with fanaticism.

We are bored with God because our heartsq do not hunger for God, seek God, love God

The purpose of Purgatory is to completely internalize, in your own individual soul, what Christ has completely accomplished in objective reality in His Passion. Nothing

Heart" here refers especially to deep feeling or emotion. "Heart" means not only (1) intuitive reason ("the heart has its reasons") and (2) will

you have nothing worth dying for, you will die. If you have nothing worth living for except mere living, you will not live.

Code is FLUFFY AND FIERCE.

Yet, there is a world of difference between compliance and commitment. The committed person brings an energy, passion, and excitement that cannot be generated by someone who is only compliant, even genuinely compliant. The committed person doesn't play by the rules of the game. He is responsible for the game. If the rules of the game stand in the way of achieving the vision, he will find ways to change the rules. A group of people truly committed to a common vision is an awesome force.

By the time they are 30, a few are on the fast track and the rest 'put in their time' to do what matters to them on the weekend. They lose the commitment, the sense of mission, and the excitement with which they started their careers. We get damn little of their energy and almost none of their spirit.

Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.

Murder scenes in particular got them going: sex and death, the old aphrodisiac combination.

Love is both wonderful and foolish.

Ishq and Mushq.

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I wish to go beyond the fire that burns me.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

He who can describe how his heart is ablaze is burning on a small pyre] ~ Petrarch, Sonnet 137 (from Montaigne, On sadness)

Uncover what you long for and you will discover who you are.

For a journey without challenge, has no meaning; one without purpose, has no soul.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. RUMI

Cuando haces cosas desde el alma, sientes un río, un gozo que fluye en tu interior. RUMI

Love is another name for sex.

It was on the order of coin or stamp collecting; no rational explanation could ever be given. And high prices were being paid by wealthy collectors.