Quotes About Passion

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred him to remove your brain or your heart.

Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for.

One of the nicest gifts we can give the person we're sharing our lives with is the support and time to pursue his/her passion — even if we don't fully understand it.

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel - everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.-

Rodin was on the brink of a grand passion. But unlike Bernhardt's, his lover would become the greatest inspiration of his career. Her name was Camille Claudel, and if she was not pretty in a conventional way, she was as beautiful and alive as quicksilver. She was also an extraordinarily gifted sculptor in her own right.

leaving a searing impression of a brilliant, emotional, and deeply caring woman—one who, with a startling degree of selflessness, poured her considerable passion into helping the downtrodden.

You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex—that's quite a thought, isn't it?

I simply do not distinguish between work and play.

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket you put your life into it and make something out of that.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood.

Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.

Plato, in his opinion, had committed too much to love.

In his imagination the pages were printed not with their own paragraphs only, but with all that he himself had brought to them: it seemed as though he must be identified and revealed in them, beyond all pretence of detachment, as if they were a diary to which he had committed every secret of his heart.

There is madness in youth, but sometimes a god inspires it.

Alexander)'Sometimes I forget all this for months on end. Sometimes I think of it day and night. Sometimes I think, unless I find out the truth of it, I shall go mad.' (Hephaistion)'That's stupid. You've got me now. Do you think I'd let you go mad?

Sexual desire is a state not unlike hunger.

Think about what you love, Hildegard. Trust it. That's where your talents lie and that's where you'll find happiness, even here.

How she craved pain, how it thrilled her, weeping tears of blood. Our Savior died for the sins of the world--that was the true meaning of passion.

Spirited children experience every emotion and sensation deeply and powerfully. Their hearts pound; the adrenaline flows through their bodies. There is actually a physical reaction that occurs more strongly in their bodies than in less intense individuals. They are not loud because they know it irritates people; they are loud because they really feel that much excitement, pain, or whatever the emotion or sensation might be. Their intensity is real. It is their first and most natural reaction.