Quotes About Passion

Bastard," she cried softly. " Bastard! Why did you ever touch me? I w-was fine until you touched me." "And I was fine until you touched me," he countered in a whisper.

years later, one of the original site visitors told me that the actual reason for the funding was that I was so passionate about my work. The committee believed that if anyone could develop an effective behavior therapy intervention for suicidal people, it would be me. IN 1978, ABOUT a year after I arrived in Seattle, I attended a summer program at the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation, in Washington, D.C., to learn how to be a spiritual director.

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.

The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones as in the different passages of music in a symphony.

My God, I am wholly Yours. O God of Love, I love You with all my heart. Lord, make my heart even as Yours.

Five qualities that you need to bring to an activity in order to do it well are: motivation, knowledge, ability, confidence, and authenticity.

Mojo" is, "That positive spirit toward what we are doing now, that starts from the inside and radiates to the outside

Artist in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

Sometimes you suffer for the things that are important to you.

It really turns me on when you talk geek.

Inside every man is a teenage boy, and we're -all- crazy in love with Shulky.

Nel codice comune le storie passionali si agitano in acque tempestose, e se la tempesta governa, gli animi in sua balia sembrano meno responsabili. Invece la sua anima pareva ferma in una cala tranquilla.

Can I tell you what I'm doing? I'm in search of a new story for myself. I need something to do that gets me excited in the morning and wears me out by bedtime.

And this urge to run away from what I love is a sort of sadism I no longer pretend to understand.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

A dancer isn't great because of their technique...they're great because of their passion.

No artist is pleased.... there is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.

The only sin is mediocrity.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissastifaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

People yearn for purpose—for doing something that's important, that engages their full potential in a way that's meaningful beyond their personal bank accounts.