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Quotes About Passion

Take up one idea Make that one idea your life Think of it Dream of it Live on that idea Let the brain, muscles, nerves every part of your body be full of that idea and just leave every other idea alone
~ Vivekananda
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it, think of it, and live on that alone. Let the brain, the muscles, the nerves and indeed every part of your body be full of that idea, to the exclusion of every other idea. That indeed is the way to success, and that is how the great spiritual giants are produced.
~ Vivekananda
Life is going to give you just what you put into it. Put your whole heart in everything you do.
~ Unknown
Así que estaban los Kerner, llenos de odio, entrelazados en secreto por el espasmo sexual, y estaban mis padres, que se llamaba el uno al otro pero cuyo lecho campaba castamente en campo abierto. Abajo la casa un desastre, el marido estaba exiliado en el salón, a las posar una soñadora medio lunática; arriba todo estaba como una patena el marido en el centro de todo y la esposa, vehemente y obstinada.
~ Vivian Gornick
This book is for Randall Jarrell, the man who believed we are devoted to the act of making literature because it leads to the act of reading.
~ Vivian Gornick
I've always been mad about cats.
~ Vivien Leigh
No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk-handsome, twentytwoyearold.
~ Vladimir Mayakovsky
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually imbibing and assimilating every particle of each other's soul and flesh; but there we were, unable even to mate as slum children would have so easily found an opportunity to do so.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t'aimais, je t'aimais! And there were times when I knew how you felt, and it was hell to know it, my little one. Lolita girl, brave Dolly Schiller.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Let all of life be an unfettered howl.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Perhaps that is the only way that true love can work, when it is prepared for and embraced without thought, without choice.
~ Unknown
All literature in some degree, exists to reveal a more powerful and passionate, a more divine world than ours.
~ Unknown
Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.
~ Unknown
Nas?l da ölümdür müzik SevdiÄŸin ÅŸark? söylerken.
~ W. B. Yeats
And cried, 'Before I am old I shall have written him one Poem maybe as cold And passionate as the dawn.
~ W. B. Yeats
Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. O Never give the heart outright, For they, for all smooth lips can say, Have given their hearts up to the play. And who could play it well enough If deaf and dumb and blind with love? He that made this knows all the cost, For he gave all his heart and lost.
~ W. B. Yeats
Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
~ W. C. Fields
No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
~ W. Clement Stone
by employing the right work habits, you do become an expert. Then you experience the joy of work, and the job is no longer work. It becomes fun.
~ W. Clement Stone
the person's hot button has been pushed.
~ W. Clement Stone
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
~ W. Clement Stone