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Quotes About Passion

since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you
~ E.E. Cummings
to hell with literature we want something redblooded
~ E.E. Cummings
i spill my bright incalculable soul
~ E.E. Cummings
You have to go through life with more than just passion for change; you need a strategy. I'll repeat that. I want you to have passion, but you have to have a strategy. Not just awareness, but action. Not just hashtags, but votes. You see, change requires more than righteous anger.
~ E.J. Dionne Jr.
And she understood as I did that when you sat down and put your hands on the keys, it was not just a piano in front of you, it was a universe.
~ E.L. Doctorow
loved him beyond reason, but then, all love is beyond reason.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
If you really want to be a witch, nothing you have to do will seem like too much. If you don't really want to be a witch, everything will seem like too much.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
Italy is a country every man should love once.
~ Earnest Hemingway
After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.
~ Earnest Hemingway
The opposite of passion is not virtue but routine. - Daphne with her Thighs in Bark
~ Eavan Boland
Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.
~ Eckhart Tolle
whenever there is inspiration...and enthusiasm...there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Enthusiasm and the ego cannot coexist.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Love and do what you will
~ Eckhart Tolle
Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do then is "ride the wave.
~ Eckhart Tolle
After that, the outer purpose is just a game that you may continue to play simply because you enjoy it.
~ Eckhart Tolle
This is why Ralph Waldo Emerson said that, "Nothing great has ever been achieved without enthusiasm."2
~ Eckhart Tolle
To an onlooker, it may appear that you are under stress, but the intensity of enthusiasm has nothing to do with stress. When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.
~ Eckhart Tolle
That day, I began to be incredulous. Or, rather, I regretted having been credulous. I regretted having allowed myself to be borne away by a passion of the mind. Such is credulity.
~ Eco, Umberto
I believe that, with anything in life, if you have the patience, desire and passion, you can do whatever you set your mind to.
~ Ed Viesturs
if you're passionate about something and self-motivated, those are the key ingredients.
~ Ed Viesturs
Who we love above all else is who we worship, and who we worship controls us.
~ Ed Welch
So this was love! I had escaped it for all the years I had roamed the five continents and their encircling seas; in spite of beautiful women and urging opportunity; in spite of a half-desire for love and a constant search for my ideal, it had remained for me to fall furiously and hopelessly in love with a creature from another world, of a species similar possibly, yet not identical with mine.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
My longing was beyond the power of opposition;
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs