My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
Maya AngelouAbsence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La RochefoucauldChase your passion, not your pension.
Denis WaitleyIf passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Benjamin FranklinSeek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.
Maya AngelouAnyone who seeks to destroy the passions, instead of controlling them, is trying to play the angel.
VoltaireWho is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin FranklinBy believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
Franz KafkaA man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Carl JungFaith is a passionate intuition.
William WordsworthYes, in all my research the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.
Deepak ChopraBlues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
Christina AguileraMost people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar WildeFear is the passion of slaves.
Patrick HenryIt is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
Christian Nestell BoveeOf all the worldly passions lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.
BuddhaBecause of its tremendous solemnity, death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.
Soren KierkegaardA taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert CamusThe passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
Christian Nestell BoveeAs long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
Lord ByronAdmiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.
Joseph AddisonHe only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence, but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlways go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not.
Deepak ChopraA toothache or a violent passion is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance, or insignificance.
T. S. EliotControl thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee.
EpictetusDispassionate objectivity is itself a passion for the real and for the truth.
Abraham MaslowAmbition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach, we are never satisfied.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowEducate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
Benjamin FranklinA man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
Thomas FullerFaith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
Soren KierkegaardBe still when you have nothing to say, when genuine passion moves you say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
David Herbert LawrenceOf all base passions, fear is the most accursed.
William ShakespeareHer passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love.
William ShakespearePassion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance, and art would be useless.
Honore de BalzacHow can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert CamusAll humanity is passion, without passion religion, history, novels, art, would be ineffectual.
Honore de BalzacThose who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the flame of their fervor cannot always be seen.
Herman HesseThe passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate, they are green and vigorous in old age.
George SantayanaTo be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented is the only pleasing solitude.
Joseph AddisonLove life, engage in it, give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back many times over what you put into it.
Maya AngelouHonest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Henry MillerAll human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire.
AristotleHer passion was never spent in public display.
Maya AngelouMy message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.
Alanis MorissetteDave is one of my favorite sources of information and opinion on the Web. His opinions are passionately held, well-informed, intelligent, argumentative and quite often wrong.
Douglas AdamsGod is the Seed,The Universe is the Tree, Impulses and passions are the branches, Intelligence is the flower, Pure Consciousness is the fruit, Love is the sweetness in the fruit.
Sai BabaCows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.
Charles DickensCLEANSE your emotions, passions, impulses, attitudes and reactions. That is the essence of spiritual discipline, as laid down in all Faiths.
Sai BabaAnimals often strike us as passionate machines.
Eric HofferBlind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
E. O. WilsonI have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Albert EinsteinThe law is reason free from passion
AristotleEndurance is the crowning quality And patience all the passion of great hearts.
James Russell LowellFor passion, be it observed, brings insight with it, it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons fools and idiots, especially during youth.
Honore de BalzacIt is easy to fly into a passion - anybody can do that - but to be angry with the right person to the right extent, and at the right time, with the right object, and in the right way - that is not easy and it is not everyone who can do it.
AristotleAs water when transmuted into steam becomes a new, more definite and wide-reaching power, so passion when transmuted into intellectual and moral force becomes a new life, a new power, for the accomplishment of high and unfailing purposes.
James Allen