Quotes About Passion

ardor which is tapas; the name Indra

God, youth is a terrible time! So much feeling and so little notion of how to handle it!

There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die.

I had schooled myself since the war-days never to speak of my enthusiasms; when other people did not share them, which was usual, I was hurt and my pleasure diminished; why was I always excited about things other people did not care about? But I could not hold in.

I know well enough how people in love drag the name of the loved one into every conversation, simply to utter that magical word, to savor it on the tongue.

The harder the dick the funner the sex

had been years since he had felt the excitement of romantic love. For a couple of weeks he hadn't even recognized

he said softly. "At the present time in my life there are only two things I really care about: you and my research. And if there were some way I could make a living out of being with you, I might even forget the research.

She was a one-girl welcoming committee who loved God with a passion and loved serving Him by serving people.

I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer unless you have no choice - and if you have no choice, good luck to you.

There was, too, a reality to her new life that her old life had lacked, and she realized with a shock that she had never truly loved or hated, for she had never seen the world she had been used to living in closely enough for it to evoke passion in her.

It is not a comfortable passion.

Roses are for love. Not forget-me-not, honeysuckle, silly sweethearts' love but the love that makes you and keeps you whole, love that gets you through the worst your life'll give you and that pours out of you when you're given the best instead.

A writer who isn't writing isn't really alive.

Life tests the big dreamers the Passionate revolutionaries.

A burning sense of passion is the most potent fuel for your dreams.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." —Norman Cousins

you will never be able to hit a target that you cannot see. People spend their whole lives dreaming of becoming happier, living with more vitality and having an abundance of passion. Yet they do not see the importance of taking even ten minutes a month to write out their goals and to think deeply about the meaning of their lives, their Dharma

Be guided by your heart.

for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die. For the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It's a sort of splendid torch which I've got to hold up for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

People living deeply have no fear of dying," wrote Anaïs Nin. Norman Cousins observed that "the great tragedy of life is not death but what we allow to die inside of us while we live.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

Alright, the secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it.

Love provides the person with the purpose of his life. Intellect shows him the means to achieve that purpose." Leo Tolstoy