Quotes About Passion

Daily Law: Do something today that you used to love doing as a kid. Try to reconnect with your impulse voices. Robert Greene in conversation at Live Talks Los Angeles, February 11, 2019

Know What You're Drawn to and Immerse Yourself in It

Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

Daily Law: What's something you've always felt a pull toward? Dive deep into it today. Mastery, I: Discover Your Calling—The Life's Task

They experience it as an inner calling. It tends to dominate their thoughts and dreams. They find their way, by accident or sheer effort, to a career path in which this inclination can flourish.

Against the alchemy of two naked bodies in a bed in the darkness, and against all the complex longings and attachments and commitments such intimacy might arouse, he had nothing with which to fight.

If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)

It's better to copulate than not.

All love is blind to reason, and maybe that's why some people are so strong.

Aseguraba que me sorprendería la encantadora muchacha por la que había perdido corazón, mente, alma, razón, talento para cocinar y casi todo lo demás.

Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.

Remember the flame, lad, and the void." It was an odd thing Tam had taught him. Concentrate on a single flame and feed all your passions into it—fear, hate, anger—until your mind became empty. Become one with the void, Tam said, and you could do anything.

And yet many of us do it without families, Nynaeve said. Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try to guide the world, we separate ourselves from it.We risk arrogance, Egwene. We always assume we know best, but risk making ourselves unable to fathom the people we claim to serve.

I would burn the world and use my soul for tinder to hear her laugh again.  

A woman's love can be violent. Sometimes they hurt a man worse than they think they have, worse than they mean to. Sometimes, they're even sorry afterwards.

A girl or a fight, pouting lips or a flashing blade. Whichever dance you're dancing at the moment is always the most fun. Wouldn't you say?

Well perhaps you humans do have short lives but you do so much with them. Always jumping around, always so hasty and you have the whole world to do it in. - Loial

What I love, I destroy, Lews Therin laughed. What I destroy, I love.

It was pure Fire, and the blazes were ferocious, fiercer than she would have expected from Fire alone.

Concentrate on a single flame and feed all your passions into it—fear, hate, anger—until your mind became empty.

Nynaeve al'Meara was what, back in Seanchan, one would call a telarti—a woman with fire in her soul.

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes. That's enough for anyone to know. I am here for my art.

Elayne's first act in Caemlyn would be to get Rand alone and kiss him within an inch of his life.

Concentrate on a single flame and feed all your passions into it—fear, hate, anger—until your mind became empty. Become one with the void, Tam said, and you could do anything