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Quotes About Passion

Maslow's five values are the values for which people live when they have nothing to live for. Nothing has seized them, nothing has caught them, nothing has driven them spiritually mad and made them worth talking to.
~ Joseph Campbell
You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work.
~ Joseph Campbell
Passion makes most psychiatrists nervous
~ Joseph Campbell
Why re-enter such a world? Why attempt to make plausible, or even interesting, to men and women consumed with passion, the experience of transcendental bliss? As dreams that were momentous by night may seem simply silly in the light of day, so the poet and the prophet can discover themselves playing the idiot before a jury of sober eyes.
~ Joseph Campbell
Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
~ Joseph Campbell
Follow your bliss, and doors will open for you that you never knew existed. Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls
~ Joseph Campbell
Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
~ Joseph Campbell
Chodte za svojim stastim a vesmir vam otvori dvere aj tam, kde dovtedy boli iba mury.
~ Joseph Campbell
The girl was absorbed in him, without consciousness or shame.
~ Joseph Campbell
CAMPBELL: Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. Most
~ Joseph Campbell
With passion you want to possess. The conversion of passion into compassion is the whole problem of marriage.
~ Joseph Campbell
If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are—if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
~ Joseph Campbell
students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.
~ Joseph Campbell
Wherever you are—if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
~ Joseph Campbell
Follow your bliss.
~ Joseph Campbell
Desire and fear: these are the two emotions by which all life in the world is governed.
~ Joseph Campbell
My Aunty Frisco used to say that a man who has a strong relationship with fire is capable of historical love, because the flames keep the passion flowing in the smaller parts of the soul.
~ 33 snowfish - Adam Rapp
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
~ A. Bartlett Giamatti
My heart beats faster as you take my hand, my love grows stronger as you touch my soul.
~ A. C. Van Cherub
The music may have stopped but my heart beats to another tune, this rhythm called love.
~ A. C. Van Cherub
There's just something about letting a girl have her way with you.
~ A. C. Van Cherub
And fire and ice within me fightBeneath the suffocating night.
~ A. E. Housman
I am always frightened of something which exists in the majority of people, but which I cannot explain. The young generation of the period of transition were like me. In our mind we despised our slavery, but we ourselves became cowardly slaves. Our hatred was deep and passionate, but barren, like the mad love of a eunuch.
~ A. I. Kuprin
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
~ A. J. Liebling