Quotes About Passion

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing The Invitation by Oriah

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for – and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool – for love – for your dreams – for the adventure of being alive.

Oriana Fallaci

Non è vero che non credi all'amore, mamma. Ci credi tanto da straziarti perché ne vedi così poco, e perché quello che vedi non è mai perfetto. Tu sei fatta d'amore. Ma è sufficiente credere all'amore se non si crede alla vita?

Fanatyzm potrafi uskrzydli? os?y

Sai la stessa paura che si prova all'inizio di un amore, quando l'intuito ci annuncia le sofferenze che esso ci costerà, e la prudenza ci induce a girarvi intorno senza accostarcisi troppo, ma è un girarvi a spirale, più vicino sempre più vicino, e sai bene che finirai per cadervi dentro: a pagare ogni istante di gioia con mille dolori.

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.

Believe with all of your heart that you will do what you were made to do.

There was much that was endearing in this strangely Russian search for absolutes —such as the passion for big ideas that gave the literature of nineteenth-century Russia its unique character and power—and yet the underside of this idealism was a badgering didacticism, a moral dogmatism and intolerance, which in its own way was just as harmful as the censorship it opposed.

Everyone starts life with a fire in their soul; sadly most are snuffed out in the storms of life.

The passion/hunger of the student brings out the experience/wisdom of the mentor.

When he learned that we were interested in flying as a sport, and not with any expectation of recovering the money we were expending on it, he gave us much encouragement. At

Somehow we human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

Much of the greatness of the human spirit can be seen in our passionate pursuit of knowledge, truth, justice, beauty, perfection, and love. At the same time, few things are so haunting as the stories of the very greatest seekers falling short. Leonardo da Vinci's magnificent failures point to a very personal entry point to the wonder of calling - when something more than human seeking is needed if seeking is to be satisfied, then calling means that seekers themselves are sought.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame or money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well.

Religion was once life's central mystery, its worship life's most awesome experience, its beliefs life's broadest canopy of meaning as well as its deepest guarantee of belonging. Yet today, where religion still survives in the modern world, no matter how passionate or committed the believer, it amounts to little more than a private preference, a spare-time hobby, and a leisure pursuit.

This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.

Any connoisseur knows you've got to be drunk to really enjoy a good romance.

Excessively passionate characters have a tendency to behave poorly.

But actually glasses are the worst. Any sense of your face disappears when you put them on. Glasses obstruct whatever emotions that might appear on your face—passion, grace, fury, weakness, innocence, sorrow. And it's curious how it becomes impossible to try to communicate with your eyes. Glasses are like a ghost.

I wanted to write only what I wanted to write.

The "literary world" was a place I was grateful for, and blessed, I thought, were those who could spend their lives there.

As long as you have the desire to be somebody, you will not fall into decadence. And you don't have that kind of goal. You are passionate about wanting to see what it is like to fail.