Quotes About Passion

What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.

Instincts born of a childhood on the soccer field took over.

I believe in a higher power, and I don't think She'd want us to accept mediocrity. I don't mean that everyone needs to dream of space, or scientific breakthroughs, or changing the whole world. Just that everyone should do what they love and do it as best they can. Whether you're surfing, teaching, or collecting trash—and want to be—hold your head high and kick ass.

I'm a dad now and whatever I'm doing in life I usually put a lot of effort into it - usually too much effort, so it kind of comes off ridiculous at times.

Love is friendship set on fire.

Hey, it's not like I was saving myself for the day you had a body again, so don't get excited." "Too late." He curved his fingers around my jaw and kissed me, hard enough to turn my limbs to liquid fire.

If you follow love, you can't go wrong, even if it leads to disaster. Trust it." Raphael to Lucifer

He knelt and slowly ran his hand down my arm, his lids heavy and his lips parted. "Aura . . . where can I touch you?" "Anywhere." His hand left my arm and drifted to the rise of my hip bone. "And where can I kiss you?" I took a deep breath, long past ready for the future. "Everywhere.

As he presses me against the car and his fingers tangle in my hair, I find myself hoping-and fearing-that I'll never be the object of such a love, one that could bring a man to his knees and never let him stand again.

My heart pounded when its counterpart thumped beneath his skin. "How?" "I don't care," he said, and kissed me.

Shane closes his eyes and groans deep in his throat, a noise that embodies sex and death. His back arches, and his fingers rake the carpet as if to pull it up like grass.

All is caprice. They love without measure those whom they will soon hate without reason. —Thomas Sydenham, seventeenth-century English physician, on "hystericks," the equivalent of today's borderline personality

A borderline suffers a kind of emotional hemophilia; [s]he lacks the clotting mechanism needed to moderate [his or her] spurts of feeling. Stimulate a passion, and the borderline emotionally bleeds to death.

Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.

At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria.

I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about doing that as a profession, but I started checking things out and I found out there was a flight school down in Daytona Beach, called Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

If I've learned anything about youth it's that they feel a bond with anyone who shows a passion for living.

I do appreciate a woman who has a passion for sports and knows their stuff.

I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.

I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.