Quotes About Passion

A person cannot be at once a libertine and a married Romantic, however compelling both paradigms might be.

Real desire lacks articulacy.

I kiss, therefore I do not think.

Marriage, to Rabih, feels like the high point of a daring path to total intimacy; proposing has all the passionate allure of shutting one's eyes and jumping off a steep cliff, wishing and trusting that the other will be there to catch one.

If the fall into love happened so rapidly, is it perhaps because the wish to love has preceded the beloved? The need invented the solution. The appearance of the beloved is only the second stage of a prior but largely unconscious need to love someone.

In the Proustian scheme, it is impossible to love someone physically.

We base our fall into love upon insufficient material, and supplement our ignorance with desire.

we cannot help but ask what comes of all of this Ã¢â'¬Â¦ there is nothing to show but the satisfaction of hunger and sexual passion, and Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a little momentary gratification Ã¢â'¬Â¦ now and then, between Ã¢â'¬Â¦ endless needs and exertions.

better off pursuing tormented love affairs than reading Plato or Spinoza.

One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us seriously happy. 2.     Chloe

She'd never taken much interest in reading. She read, of course, as one did, but liking books was something she left to other people.

To her, though, nothing could have been more serious, and she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.

What Oxford gave me was time,,,I was supervised by someone whose passion for the subject, his care for his pupils and his moral rigour I have never forgotten and whose example has stayed with me all my life.

I am your new love to be kissed My flower, my lei, my love for you Is unforgettable . . .

A woman feels a man inside her and feels life. The act they engage in is the one from which all life springs, and for that moment they can feel that they are living, not dying.

Good-for-nothing rascal, where you been the last eight months?" And she kissed him with a ferocity that quite belied her words.

The first step to boosting your income is to identify where your passion lives and to be true to it.

When you are excited about reaching a goal, you are connected to the source of life. Many people judge or dismiss passion as being self-indulgent, but authentic passion moves us to fulfill our soul's mission, attract abundance and success, and serve humanity.

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. —HOWARD THURMAN

No one is too busy to do what they actually prefer.

You've got to sing like you don't need the money Love like you'll never get hurt Dance like there's nobody watching It's got to come from the heart if you want it to work

We are all smart enough to do what we value doing. We find the time, money, and means to achieve what is important to us. We are not motivated to do the things that other people tell us we should do or we should want to do.

What you love to do the most is the shortest distance between where you are now and your dreams.

Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.