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 AngelouWhen I hear a man preach I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Abraham LincolnIt isn’t what you did in the past that will affect the present. It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.
Paulo CoelhoAnyone 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 ChopraThe passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.
Mason CooleyBlues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
Christina AguileraFear 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 BoveeGreat ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon BonaparteThe true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
AristotleOf 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 CamusGreat souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe 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 CiceroA vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
Mahatma GandhiAnger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing, it goes about and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Carl SandburgAlways 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 MaslowEarth was not built for six billion people, all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.
Doug CouplandEducate 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 LawrenceHow 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 BalzacThe 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 MillerDeath is the only pure beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
David Herbert LawrenceAll 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 AngelouI think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.
Charlie SheenMy 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 DickensAnimals 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
AristotleFor 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.
Aristotle