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When I am fully immersed in my work of nourishing humanity, it fills my head with all kinds of feel-good chemicals, such as endorphins, serotonin and dopamine. Problems occur during the brief intervals between the finishing of one work and the beginning of another. During these intervals, my biology starts to get filled with stress hormones cortisol and adrenalin, that worsens my OCD. That is why, I can’t sit still even a day after I finish writing a book. Because if I do, my OCD begins to suffocate me inside my head. Hence, as soon as I deliver a work, I have to start working on my next scientific literature.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
People don't have to do things by half measures because they aren't getting paid for it. In fact, that's all the more reason to throw every ounce of passion you have behind it.
— Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody
I couldn’t talk about it, about them—not yet. So I breathed “Later” and hooked my feet around his legs, drawing him closer. I placed my hands on his chest, feeling the heart beating beneath. This—I needed this right now. It wouldn’t wash away what I’d done, but … I needed him near, needed to smell and taste him, remind myself that he was real—this was real.“Later,” he echoed, and leaned down to kiss me.It was soft, tentative—nothing like the wild, hard kisses we’d shared in the hall of throne room. He brushed his lips against mine again. I didn’t want apologies, didn’t want sympathy or coddling. I gripped the front of his tunic, tugging him closer as I opened my mouth to him.He let out a low growl, and the sound of it sent a wildfire blazing through me, pooling and burning in my core. I let it burn through that hole in my chest, my soul. Let it raze through the wave of black that was starting to press around me, let it consume the phantom blood I could still feel on my hands. I gave myself to that fire, to him, as his hands roved across me, unbuttoning as he went.I pulled back, breaking the kiss to look into his face. His eyes were bright—hungry—but his hands had stopped their exploring and rested firmly on my hips. With a predator’s stillness, he waited and watched as I traced the contours of his face, as I kissed every place I touched.His ragged breathing was the only sound—and his hands soon began roaming across my back and sides, caressing and teasing and baring me to him. When my traveling fingers reached his mouth, he bit down on one, sucking it into his mouth. It didn’t hurt, but the bite was hard enough for me to meet his eyes again. To realize that he was done waiting—and so was I.He eased me onto the bed, murmuring my name against my neck, the shell of my ear, the tips of my fingers. I urged him—faster, harder. His mouth explored the curve of my breast, the inside of my thigh.A kiss for each day we’d spent apart, a kiss for every wound and terror, a kiss for the ink etched into my flesh, and for all the days we would be together after this. Days, perhaps, that I no longer deserved. But I gave myself again to that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn.
— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses
What strikes me now as the most wonderful proof of my fitness, or unfitness, for the times is the fact that nothing people were writing or talking about had any real interest for me. Only the object haunted me, the separate, detached, insignificant thing. It might be a part of the human body or a staircase in a vaudeville house; it might be a smokestack or a button I had found in the gutter. Whatever it was it enabled me to open up, to surrender, to attach my signature. To the life about me, to the people who made up the world I knew, I could not attach my signature. I was as definitely outside their world as a cannibal is outside the bounds of civilized society. I was filled with a perverse love of the thing-in-itself - not a philosophic attachment, but a passionate, desperately passionate hunger, as if in this discarded, worthless thing which everyone ignored there was contained the secret of my own regeneration.
— Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn
All passion is childish. It's banal and naive. It's nothing we learn; it's instinctive, and so it overwhelms us. Overturns us. It bears us away in a flood. All other emotions belong to the earth, but passion inhabits the universe. That is the reason why passion is worth something, not for what it gives us but for what it demands that we risk. Our dignity. The puzzlement of others and their condescending, shaking heads.
— Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one
— Patti Smith, Just Kids
The tragedy of this age is that many are hungry for the wrong reasons
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
The roads of life are paved wide and skirt the mountains. And these very roads are choked with a steady stream of pathetically pedantic travelers who in reality have no intent of traveling. And if we are to discover the real travelers, much less join them, we will find them out on precarious paths that defy the roads and scale the mountains.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Do what you love, and the money will come. And if it doesn't, you won't care, because you'll be happy.
— Danielle Krysa, Your Inner Critic Is a Big Jerk: And Other Truths About Being Creative
The power of the undefeatable human spirit, came alive in me, and stirred the embers of my long smoldering anger into a rage of fire. I screamed a battle cry inside myself, and felt the same vigor ignite within me that inspired men for thousands of years to fight when the odds were against them. I became passionate, as I adopted a plan to fight back and win.
— Sara Niles, Torn From the Inside Out
Let me make this clear. The definition of being committed is not just trying, being interested, or promising that it will be done someday, sometime, somewhere. The true definition of being committed is getting things done with absolutely no excuses, an unshakeable and undeniable passion and an uncompromising integrity.
— Farshad Asl
The beginning of Greater things starts as a seed. Passion, willingness to learn and tenacity is the key to rising above the average and the mediocre. Keep pushing and the refinery of life will bring out the Gold within you.
— oscar bim
Hunter versus prey, and the look in his eyes told her, in no uncertain terms, eating her alive was a distinct possibility.
— Kelly Moran, Tracking You
This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist.
— Agatha Christie, Destination Unknown
Live by choice, not by accident. Lead with passion and compassion. Love with all your heart and win like a champion! Yes, Winning Matters!
— Farshad Asl
I wear a lot of pink cos' seeing pink activates endorphins and energizes my creativity. It is a colour of femininity and fierceness
— Janna Cachola
For fortune having hitherto seconded him in his designs, made him resolute and firm in his opinions, and the boldness of his temper raised a sort of passion in him for surmounting difficulties; as if it were not enough to be always victorious in the field, unless places and seasons and nature herself submitted to him.
— Plutarch, Plutarch's Lives, Vol 2
Out of the fire, passion is born.
— Kierra C.T. Banks
Entrepreneurship is where a noble cause meets the passion.
— Farshad Asl
The greatest blessings are birthed out of adversity.
— Kierra C.T. Banks
Passion for what you do goes hand in hand with style.You can say I'm a passionista
— Janna Cachola
Winning requires a crystal clear vision, relentless passion and complete dedication with No Excuses.
— Farshad Asl
We are tossed about by external causes in many ways, and like waves driven by contrary winds, we waver and are unconscious of the issue and our fate.' We think we are most ourselves when we are most passionate, whereas it is then we are most passive, caught in some ancestral torrent of impulse or feeling, and swept on to a precipitate reaction which meets only part of the situation because without thought only part of a situation can be perceived.
— Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
Life is not about possessions, it is about purpose, perseverance and passion.
— Farshad Asl
If no signal ever awakens any smoldering desire or seething passion in the wasteland of our mental universe, only a third eye may throw inspiriting light on the path to good vibrations. (“A thousand times”)
— Erik Pevernagie
I wished to stifle the unhappy passion which burned in my soul
—  but is love an illness to be cured? All I endeavored to oppose to it merely fanned its flames.
The difference between a fairly interesting writer and a fascinating writer is that the fascinating writer has a better nose for what genuinely excites him, he is hotter on the trail, he has a better instinct for what is truly alive in him. The worse writer may seem to be more sensible in many ways, but he is less sensible in this vital matter: he cannot distinguish what is full of life from what is only half full or empty of it. And so his writing is less alive, and as a writer he is less alive, and in writing, as in everything else, nothing matters but life.
— Ted Hughes, Poetry in the Making: An Anthology
God’s decision to reach out in such dramatic fashion as to lay all rightful privilege aside and be born into abject destitution tells us that His passion for us exceeds our desire for Him. And maybe we should commit to evening that up a bit.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
There is no correct way to write a novel, or rather, there is only one, and that one way is to make it interesting. That is very easily said, but how do you make your writing interesting?The answer to the question is, that you write interestingly only about the things that genuinely interest you. This is an infallible rule.
— Ted Hughes, Poetry in the Making: An Anthology
Be a hungry, passionate go-getter and together we will accomplish wonders.
— Robert J. Braathe
Profits don't always prove that you're doing it, passion does.
— Goitsemang Mvula
So love goes from feeling like I’m doing cocaine to feeling how I feel about my uncle? I don’t want to make companionate love sound like a bummer. It is love, just less intense and more stable. There is still passion, but it’s balanced with trust, stability, and an understanding of each other’s flaws.
— Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance
Anything beautiful now was just a thought yesterday.
— Sandesh Hukpachongbang
Her little chin lifted and I could see the fierceness in her eyes that told me she was angry. Her pupils dilated and her skin flushed. I wondered if she would look just as beautiful when she was in the throws of passion.
— Lenore Harper, Bear in Mine
Nobody wants great things for you. They all want you to be something they deem important for them.
— Abhijit Naskar
When we are smitten, we await love to be “remontant” and to be blooming over and over again”, like remontant roses, with blossoms scenting through all the seasons of life. Passion and patience are to be good allies, though.
— Erik Pevernagie
Emotions I’ve been working hard to hold back all summer start to spill out of me as I pull Elliott’s mouth toward my own. I’m so eager and impatient that our noses bump and teeth knock together before our lips slide into place. The frigid water is still lapping at my legs, but I can’t feel it anymore. My entire body is flush with heat, with desire. If it weren’t for the faintest hint of dance music from the clearing, I’d think that the two of us were completely alone.I wish the two of us were completely alone.
— Paula Stokes, This is How it Happened
Imagine how wild a night like this could be if you enjoyed the time spent and enjoyed the mind of the person beneath your sheets?
— Rose Fell, Lazar's Gaze
The eyes of love have 20/20 vision when focused on another, and become entirely blind when focused on ourselves.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
He: I have this crazy yearning in my heart, to make you mine.She: Sure, go ahead and make me your bad habit!
— Avijeet Das
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Amiel's Journal
His quest was a wolf, and it starved. - Gansey
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King
Being content isn’t good enough. You deserve so much more—passion, joy, and excitement...
— Nancee Cain, Tempting Jo
when you are about to give up just remember you have only two choices: stay in course or start all over again!
— Manuel Corazzari
I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
To become successful online, you only need to remember the following : Good Heart + Passion + Web Design + SEO + Digital Marketing + Dedication + Positiveness + Patience = Success
— Dr. Christopher Dayagdag
There is no short cut to success, but there are guidelines to success!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The fact that you can do something doesn't me you are called to do it
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
And I saw her as a sad thirtieth child of Valentine that fell, not as Lucifer rebelling against God, but because she too passionately wanted to be united with him! All things in excess become sin.
— Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet
In our frenzied attempts to catch up with life, we run right past it. Once we have run past it, what we are in reality attempting to catch is ourselves.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Drink,” he commanded, seeing the look of hunger, of passion, in the boy’s eyes. The intensity of his blood had awoken the predatory fire that lay within all men.
— Mark  Benjamin, A Change Of Heart
Once a woman stands for a cause, the sounds of her stilettos echoes to the far ends of the earth that the world has no choice but to listen to her voice. Yes, she could be supple,flexible… but she is resilient. She is established.
— Omoakhuana Anthonia
Don’t just wish
—  be passionate about what you wish to see happen. Rise up and make it happen.
Diversity, rather than cohesiveness, is the new passion, and it pits us against each other for “rights.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
Nothing tastes as good as the Taste for Life.
— Stan Jacobs, The Dusk And Dawn Master: A Practical Guide to Transforming Evening and Morning Habits, Achieving Better Sleep, and Mastering Your Life
When your purpose and passion are in alignment, your work becomes your calling, your life becomes your dream, and your mindset becomes 20/20 in clarity.
— Farshad Asl
I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life’s gifts in the places where life stores its scraps.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Fueled by faith and passion for our true priorities we're going to drive against traffic in order to find rest, refreshment, and time for what matters most in life.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
Don't dilute your core message burning in your spirit just to satisfy the masses
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
In the current state of society, it seems to me that man is corrupted more by reason than by passion.
— Chamfort, Màximes i pensaments
You need to change, renew, and rejuvenate yourself. Put your best foot forward in all that you do; you will develop an unmatched passion.
— Farshad Asl
You will soon regret the bitter words you fumed when you were angry.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
Anyone who feels to much or radiates extremity gets very lonely.
— Chris Kraus
I am yours,” she whispered. The words cut like knives, barely out of her mouth before he stole them, sealing them with his own lips.
— Kiersten White, And I Darken
All passion is childish. It's banal and naive. It's nothing we learn; it's instinctive, and so it overwhelms us. Overturns us. It bears us away in a flood. All other emotions belong to the earth, but passion inhabits the universe.
— Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here
How can intemperate minds be free when they're slaves to their own passions?
— Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind
It's not your end goal that gives life to your required actions, it's your required actions that give life to your end goal.
— Anonymous
This form of love is like the painof childbirth: so intenseit's hard to remember afterwards,
— Margaret Atwood, Morning in the Burned House
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness
—  it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it
Only remember: I am not the ease, but the end.I am not to blind you, but to find you.What you think is the sirens singing to lure you to your doom is only the voice of the inevitable, welcoming you after so long a wait. I was made only for you.
— Elizabeth Smart, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Passion is a strong emotion and the enthusiasm to do something.
— Pearl Zhu, Talent Master: 199+ Questions to See Talent from Different Angles
down down↓ bottomRemove this quote from your collection“I thought I saw a memory." The nun looks at her funny as the bus turns into a position she can no longer see Elathan."What do you mean dear?" She turns to the nun."I don't know exactly, I saw a face that looked like a long lost memory trying to push its way back into my head. Something powerful, something good." Michael was right. She had pushed all the memories of her father's death deep into the back of her mind, including Elathan. She shakes it off.
— Kerri E. Lorenz, Where Demons Hide: Elathan's Story Book 1
The DARRYL part of him that exploded on stage made its spellbinding, turbulent presence most felt off stage when we made love. He was a symphony of contradiction; tender, yet fierce; sweet, yet riotous; impassioned, yet leisurely; giving, yet unquenchable. We lay there naked on the carpet a long time afterward, both too depleted—and too content—to move.
— Raynetta Manees, All for Love
Creative person’s spirit and soul dance with passion and imagination.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Valley: Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence
I am not in pursuit of wealth, neither am I in want of fame! I am not after applauds that shall turn into slaps after a least slip. I do not need absolute acceptance or absolute rejection; neither am I after a total approval nor disapproval! I am in pursuit of wisdom! I am in pursuit of a true and a solemn dignity; I am in pursuit of nurturing a true and a great destiny in my journey to the final destination! I do not seek for carnal reward, but if the world will reward me, it shall be for good; If the world will accept who I am as I am and what I stand for, fine, if not, I only look up to my Heavenly Father to accomplish a solemn duty for a solemn reward!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Passion is good, but Pros have purpose and realism.
— Gabriel Dibble
Find your Voice or risk fading out
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Messy love is better than none.I guess. I'm no authorityon sane living.
— Margaret Atwood, Morning in the Burned House
...grit grows as we figure out our life philosophy, learn to dust ourselves off after rejection and disappointment, and learn to tell the difference between low-level goals that should be abandoned quickly and higher-level goals that demand more tenacity. The maturation story is that we develop the capacity for long-term passion and perseverance as we get older.
— Angela Duckworth, Grit: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success
...interests are not discovered through introspection. Instead, interests are triggered by interactions with the outside world. The process of interest discovery can be messy, serendipitous, and inefficient. This is because you can't really predict with certainty what will capture your attention and what won't...Without experimenting, you can't figure out which interests will stick, and which won't.
— Angela Duckworth, Grit: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success
Threatening a current or former partner isn't passion, or love, or heartache. It's violence, it's abuse and it's a crime.
— Miya Yamanouchi
He’s here. I feel him. His body is touching mine and it’s very real. We’re holding each other
—  it’s just all too…perfect?
To have no desire is such a load of bullshit--forgive me for being so blunt. To have no passion in one's life is a cop-out for cowards.
— Irina Kovalyova, Specimen: Stories
When I get frustrated that there aren't enough hours in a day, that I can't do enough or be enough or experience everything I want to just exactly right now, my mom reminds me in her gentle way that this is not where she thought she'd be at sixty, and that the best is yet to come. She teaches me, through her words and her actions, that if you take the next right step, if you live a life of radical and honest prayer, if you allow yourself to be led by God's Spirit, no matter how far from home and familiarity it takes you, you won't have to worry about what you want to be when you grow up. You'll be too busy living a life of passion and daring.
— Shauna Niequist, Bread and   Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes
If I wish to kiss you, I will. No priest, no father, and no god will stop me.
— Jayne Castel, Dawn of Wolves
Love is a natural instinct that grows if it is nurtured. It evolves itself but withers if it is not watered with affection, care, respect and kindness.
— Balroop Singh
The best way to check what you want is to first imagine that you have nothing and then check if the thing you want really matters to you. Your priorities would change
—  your wishes would change for sure.
Skill, education, money aren't the difference makers, passion is. If you've passion to achieve something, there's nothing that can stop you.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
The dark sky seemed to swallow the moon, as Samantha stood alone on the deserted highway.
— Grace Willows
Sometime I ride like demon and sometime my bike act like monster...Sometime I ride it for passion and sometime because I am happy and sometime because I am in another world and thinking about something serious.
— Grim Reaper
Amazing how too much passion in one part of your life can destroy passion in other parts of your life.
— Clifford Cohen
Ashtadukht slumped and let thenightingale’s song flood her brain. She knew that empty tone, that defeatedoutlook; she knew it intimately. Even now, it burned in her as limply as asnuffed flame. Passion burned with unchecked verve, devoured its fuel, andsputtered out. Despair required no upkeep; it heaped barely-glowing coals inthe back of your mind and fuelled itself.
— Darrell Drake, A Star-Reckoner's Lot
If you've passion- the desire to succeed at all cost, there won't be any lack or limitation that could stop you. Passion wipes out excuses.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
In a moment I am everything, in a moment I am nothing. In a moment I understand everything, in a moment I do not understand anything.In a moment I am on cloud number 9, in a moment I am at ground zero.In a moment I love, in a moment I hate.In a moment I am a success, in a moment I am failureIn a moment I fight, in a moment I give upIn a moment I win; in a moment I lose and in moment I lose these moments to win more, to live for more and to love more.
— Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel
Time and again, I've met or read about people who succeeded against all kinds of odds because they had passion. You're passion away to win!
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
When passion dies, reasons dwindle
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
They say, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger"....I don't agree. Some things that didn't kill me, came so close that they're still damaging. They didn't make me better. Some things made me worse. And can't that be okay too? Can't some things just break you? This whole fucking world wants you to believe that admitting defeat makes you weak. For God's sake, bleed. And bleed openly. There can be pride in vulnerability. Honesty is maturity. And really, it's the things that did kill me, that made me.
— J. Raymond
She persisted when I resisted. And thank God for that. Because the number of storms I needed to go through before appreciating the way the wind whipped through her hair was one to many. Now, I'd move mountains to make her mine. Rain or shine.
— J. Raymond
I fell in love, and she fanned my flames. They spread to soon, Quickly and uncontrollably. I had finally found the one willing to catch fire, side by side, while the world watched us burn.
— J. Raymond
Life can be so wonderful when simplicity, passion and love is involved in everything we do !
— Angie karan
Without curiosity and passion, the world will seem to lack possibility and everything in life will appear pre-ordained. It is important for a person to spend the majority of the day pursuing their passionate interests and enlisting their innate inquisitiveness. Life is so much sweeter when we contemplate pleasant as opposed to distasteful thoughts. We feel most alive when we create an apt channel for our creative impulses, and engage in thoughtful discourse relating to our concordant values.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
You may kill a fire. And everything you know falls to dust and ash. Yet the remarkable treasure in this seemingly hopeless pile, is hidden deep within. The burning embers incarnate the perpetual desire to go from spark to flame.
— Akilnathan Logeswaran
Something about her was different that day. In an instant, she swallowed her regrets, choked back her past, and swore to make history every damn day. There I stood, struggling to make sense of the strength of a woman.
— J. Raymond
We cannot anticipate in advance how anyone will respond when they first rub elbows with Eros’ malady of passion and madness. Eros arrives on a wing of a devious angel to take control of our body, encapsulate our mind, and seize command over the quality of our life. In its purest manifestation, romantic love guarantees to rip us asunder, because we are unwittingly dispossessed of our precious sense of self-control.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Disturbing encounters in life spur reflective thinking that jars a person from his or her exhausted ideologies and way of living. A person who lives passionately will develop a philosophic outlook because the road of excess leads to knowledge. Enthusiasm will frequently make a person look foolish, and result in intermittent periods of despondency and self-questioning, yet only exuberance and a degree of risk-taking leads us to wisdom.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
My creativity, no matter how poor, is for me a far better guide than all the knowledge with which my head has been crammed. In the night of Power, its glimmer keeps the enemy forces at bay.
— Raoul Vaneigem, The Revolution of Everyday Life
When we start focusing our energy on the things we love, they come easier and more effortlessly over time.
— Michael Thomas Sunnarborg, Balancing Work, Relationships & Life in Three Simple Steps
It waited for her. Standing resolute in the moonlight, it had stood for a hundred years. Yet it waited just for her. Shadows passed across the moon, a cool breeze ruffled the leaves around it. Yet still it waited for her. Ancient tombs glowed in shimmery moonlight, row upon row of cold silent witnesses.
— Grace Willows, Don't Look Back: And Other Stories of the Paranormal
From the flames she rises, a bold, resplendent warrior ready to bring the world to its knees and cast away those who do not revere their Goddess. Enrapturing all those whom she favours there is no escaping her beguiling sensuality. Enfolding him to her breast, she enslaves his tumescence within her warm embrace and he is lost, within her passion, for eternity...
— Virginia Alison
Arise, my love, let us try to set these ashes on fire again!
— Anthony Liccione
The sound was like a gentle breeze of joy on a warm summer day. It wrapped around his senses and his heart. That was the moment, and he knew he’d be telling her about it fifty years from now when she asked him when it was that he knew that he loved her.
— Grace Willows
The heavy rain dripped off his thick leather hat and sloshed on the dry hard ground. To someone with a soul, it might have been peaceful, pretty, even to watch the drops bounce and form graceful puddles before they disappeared into the cracks in the Earth.Daniel Marlin merely cursed. He only saw the weather as another delay before they could rescue their brother from jail. He turned the horse back into the copse of trees, hating to admit defeat.
— Grace Willows
Enraged is the wrong word, but I felt like I wanted to kick you in the shins and then make you banana bread. I wanted to key your car and take you out for dim sum. It was admiration, passion and that voice of yours all mushing together and disarming me, making me want smash something and kiss someone.
— Mary-Louise Parker, Dear Mr. You
The great opportunity you are daring to get may not come at once. But it is possible that this opportunity is hidden in the tiny ones you neglect every day.
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
Celebrate your achievements, but never let them sink you into the pool of complacency.
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
...But I do like the idea of household gods--shall we get some? A set of little statues and bring the boys up to believe in them?""I hope they believe in something," said Elspeth. 'Imagaine believing in nothing at all--not even in love, or justice, or any of the things that can make people passionate.""Such as a country?"Elspeth thought about this. "I suppose there are lots of people who believe in Scotland. Or the European Union, for that matter. Their belief anables them to ... well, to talk about the future with enthusiasm. They don't like things as they are and they are convinced that things will be much improved once they are otherwise.""Well, why not?" asked Matthew."I didn't say there was any reason why not. I'm just commenting on that sort of belief. The trouble is that it might make discussion difficult. If somebody believes to strongly in one particular solution to the world's problems, then it may obscure the nuances. That's all I was saying." Elspeth paused. "They may not see that there are others who have a different view. You can love things in a whole lot of different ways, can't you?
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Revolving Door of Life
The thickest sweats produce the sweetest life. A hard work surely brings unheard happiness. Dig up your gold.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Mine Your Gold: How to Dig Up and Optimize Your Hidden Greatness
What made me happy was not regular pay check I got but the passion I had on the side and the effort I was putting to make that passion come to life.
— Dhaval Gajera, MAKE IT HAPPEN: with 30 greatest life lessons
A real winner is the one who has the ability to find success by self; who chases success at his/her own will, and never gives a chance to attribute credit of his/her success to his/her referees. No matter how slow he/she goes; how painful are the financial issues; how long it takes to find self; and how likely he/she persevere, in the end, the fruits of success would give enough pleasure than the pleasure earned through references.
— Ashish Patel
She admired her passion, knowing that passion is by definition excessive.
— Milan Kundera, Ignorance
Ask yourself, if they getting married, would you be upset if you weren't invited? If the answer is no, then that's an easy name to cross off your list.
— Anna Bell, Don't Tell the Boss
Don't starve an instinct with a lie on, Never hit or deceive a wounded lion. He heals faster than you can imagine And hurts even more when in famine.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine
Bonjour madame!” , he was coming out of the bathroom when he saw her in the corridor. He was in his blue towel, wrapped around his well built waistline. Rrlene blushed as she saw him semi naked but couldn’t help looking at his bare chest, which ran down to his flat stomach, further covered down by his long towel. His hair all wet, and there were still droplets on his shoulders. She was moving her eyes carefully from one part to another, appreciating everything she saw with her soft gaze, which was kind of stuck on his muscled up chest and she wondered he must have done a lot of tour de france and twisted her lips with a naughty smile.
— Ruche La
Hayden McGregor glanced with contempt at the pitch-black road. “I do not fear the darkness. It fears me.” He dismissed the approaching gloom with a narrowed stare. His steel gray eyes holding it back with a contemptuous regard.
— Grace Willows, Not On My Watch
Treat Your Business like a Romance"With Passion
— Cindy Derbyshire
Albert didn't know how that skinny school teacher could take what Willie gave her. But that was another thing he'd learned over the years
—  the size of the woman on the outside didn't mean nothing. It was how much hunger she had on the inside that made her what she was between the sheets.
Dark is the world’s night without you my love,
— Pablo Neruda, Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems
I cannot live without books because books are my life.
— Acacia
She imagined she could taste the storm in him, the battering winds of desperation and frustration that met her own, blow for blow.
— Alexandra Bracken, Passenger
She was a damn good kisser, maybe the best I'd ever had the immense pleasure of kissing. It helped that her lips were like pillows and she tasted sweet. Not like strawberries or peaches. Sunshine and sweet—her own brand of it. Plus there was desperation in the kiss, an understated but raw passion I couldn't recall ever experiencing before.Or maybe that had been me. Maybe I'd been the passionate, desperate one. No matter. Either way, she'd stolen my breath, robbed me of thought and sense. She was a master thief, and I loved her for it.
— Penny Reid, Grin and Beard It
Do no drown me with mediocrity, give me passion, desire, make me inhale breaths of lust and love in the dark hours that tingle down my spine...
— Virginia Alison
We were a perfect match. Maybe that's why we burnt out.
— Anonymous
I do not believe it possible for one to genuinely love Truth more than people (or vice versa). One might fall into the snare of loving the search more than people, or the pride of having exposed something or someone, but not the truth itself. For if you love Truth you love people; because to love people at all and without illusion, you must also love the truth about them.
— Criss Jami
I remember the strength of her body writhing inside the velvet. And, suddenly, the velvet was gone as though my greedy hands had worn it away and she stood flushed and trembling before me. I forgave every complaint I had leveled against God at the sight of her tremulous beauty—wisps of curls like trickles of burgundy trailing over breasts as plump and round as a pair of bandy hens fattened up for Sunday dinner. I could scarcely touch her. My fingertips traveled over her roundness. In rashness I gathered her to me, pressed against her ... lay her down. I was inside her before her back touched the sheets. Her sighs could give birth to new stars.
— Kathleen Valentine, The Old Mermaid's Tale: A Novel of the Great Lakes
To all the students - no school report card can tell you weather you can achieve your dream or not. Know your purpose, know your dream, know your vision, stay focused, do your job and do not listen to anyone including your report card. Don’t let the board results or rankings bother you. Do what you are passionate about, work harder, do better but don’t let your mark sheet tell you anything.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
Passion without perseveranceis fire without fuel.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Passion. As you can see, I've lived quite a long time, which is to say I've been working for quite a long time, which is the same thing. And you know what? In the whole silly business, the only thing that really matters is passion. It comes and it goes. At first it just comes to you free of charge, and you don't understand, and you waste it. And then it becomes a thing to nurture.
— Tove Jansson, The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories
If you are sleeping that time when you should not sleep!you should sleep forever because you are hopeless
— Laxmikant
You askif I will write a poemI could,I supposewrite the mostsplendiferousone of allbut notrightnownot whenyour handsare brewingwarmcinnamon teaacross my skinnot when I’mtrying to imaginewhat might happenif you beganfloweringkissesuponmeMy dear,how canI writea poemwhen I’m alreadyinside one?
— Sanober  Khan, A Thousand Flamingos
I need to use my mind in a way that slows the out-of-control beating in my chest. The darkness around us could be anywhere, anytime. I could be alive or dead. Okay, I choose alive. While I’m at it, I choose the darkness to be a gentle blanket on a moonless night, where I rest a few feet from a boy who’s warm and sweet. When he holds me, his heart beats strong with what I tell myself is passion, not fear.
— Jeanne Ryan, Nerve
One person's disapproval shouldn't make you quit. If it's your passion, a thousand people screaming 'No!' still won't stop you!
— Tammy Ferebee
Amazing relationships aren't about making one perfect choice in your choice of partner. They're about the infinite amount of choices you make in each conflict, each conversation, and each moment to open yourself and to stay open, even when it's hard.
— Vironika Tugaleva
...perhaps, also this short embrace may infuse in their veins a little of this thrill which they would not have known without it, and will give to those two dead souls, brought to life in a second, the rapid and divine sensation of this intoxication, of this madness which gives to lovers more happiness in an instant than other men can gather during a whole lifetime.
— Guy de Maupassant
Anna and I did not make love. I don't remember why. Maybe we didn't need to. She might have been afraid, although I doubt she was afraid of much. She'd been a midwife before she opened a studio; she'd held life in her hands, like a wire from a galvanic cell. Maybe death was too strong in me for an act so inspirited with life. Although I sometimes think that death is what gives lovemaking its desperate and terrible joy.
— Norman Lock, American Meteor
If we were alone, he would have thrown me up against the nearest wall, and holy hell, I would have let him.
— T.A. Roth, Say Something...
Down the rusty bars of ladders to the undergrounds of the night propitious to the first man and woman at the beginning of the world. where there were no words by which to possess each other, no music for serenades, no presents to court with, no tournaments to impress and force a yielding, no secondary instruments, no adornments, necklaces, crowns to subdue, but only one ritual, a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous, impaling of a woman on a man´s sensual mast
— Anaïs Nin
We need work as much as we need rest; the two complement each other, one drawing power and enjoyability from the other. Rest is sweet after work, and work enjoyable after a good rest.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Vision
...what will happen to us this night will resemble a flame consuming the icy desert, a shower of stars reflected in a piece of a mirror that in the darkness suddenly fell out of its frame to warn its owner about the proximity of death. It'll resemble the shepherd's pipe and the music that has not been written yet.
— Sasha Sokolov, A School for Fools
The hope is always here, always alive, but only your fierce caring can fan it into a fire to warm the world.
— Susan Cooper, Silver on the Tree
Two easy steps to be a good writer:1. Don't write what everyone is writing.2. Write what everyone is trying to write.
— Himanshu Chhabra
Is it not rather the touch of Love, of Love the Mysterious, who seeks constantly to unite two beings, who tries his strength the instant he has put a man and a woman face to face?
— Guy de Maupassant, Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant
Baraccus had told her that while a number of wizards could make things, the same as the ungifted could make things, it was this component of artistic ability in creating new things that took to to another level and made the makers more than true prophets. Magda remembered the passion in his voice as he told her about such things. Making things was in his soul. Creating new things seemed to be his spark of life.
— Terry Goodkind, The First Confessor
Every successful start-up is built on four pillars. Team, Idea, Passion & Presentations
— Aayush Jain
Yet I must tell you, that all these graces which are expressed by passions of sorrow, fear, joy, hope, love, are not so certainly to be tried by the passion that is in them, as by the will that is either contained in them, or supposed in them; not as acts of the sensitive, but of the rational appetite (358).
— Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest
You too know that all my eyes see, all I touch with myself, from any distance, is Diego. The caress of fabrics, the color of colors, the wires, the nerves, the pencils, the leaves, the dust, the cells, the war and the sun, everything experienced in the minutes of the non-clocks and the non-calendars and the empty non-glances, is him.
— Frida Kahlo, The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
And then he was kissing me like we were both on fire and he was trying to put the flames out, and I kissed him back like an arsonist with a pocketful of matches.
— Jenn Bennett, The Anatomical Shape of a Heart
She sought his eyes once again. Eyes so perfect a blue they rivaled the most gorgeous lapis lazuli stone.
— Grace Willows, Satisfaction Guaranteed
Isaac dared not move and she did not stir either, both staring up at the canopy above. If he reached over, if he –no, no. It was better to keep a small shield between them, to preserve the little progress they had made in their standoffish, untested relationship, two strangers forced together under impossible circumstances. The last thing he needed was to push her away, to frighten her, to be the brute she’d taken him for. It had been three weeks since they’d been in this very same position and so much had changed and yet so little. A ridiculous, naïve hope drifted into his head before he found sleep: perhaps one day, a long time from now, they would be friends. He would settle for that, if he could have nothing more. Even though he wanted everything.
— Sophie Dash, To Wed a Rebel
To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
— Richard Whately
The sea has its moods. Sometimes it is melancholic and morose, other times fierce and feisty. But always passionate. Even when calm, one can sense the depth of the sea’s passion
— Jocelyn  Murray, The English Pirate
Photography is not about costly cameras'. It's about your huge passion and little interest in innovation.
— shivangi lavaniya
You have to know what you want to ever be able to have it.
— Jewel, Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story
When you quit caring about your dreamswhen your effort is quiet, your Yes moments fade and your options are disappearing before youListen...Your heart will know it is not your time to stop or to dull your momentum,instead ignite your passion, Dig in and prepare yourself to soar to the top.Never be the main character of someone else's story.The chapters you write will be about the ending of Noand will become the beginning of what shall be yourmajestic spiritual awakening.
— Bluenscottish
Seek first the kingdom of God and all other things will be added to you. Don't worry about the things. Seek Him first and watch Him work in you.
— Andrena Sawyer
He walks the soft grass, wet with fresh rain, jeans slung low on his hips and shirt hanging open, still dripping from the fevered maelstrom that set fire to the night sky. Fury in his step and passion furrowing his brow...He is my perfect storm...
— Virginia Alison
The Christian journey is truly an exciting endeavor be-cause we become eyewitnesses to the holy activity of a wonderful God in our lives on a daily basis. One of the great marvels of the faith is that we are transformed into testifiers of His strength and grace in the midst of major obstacles.
— Malcolm Walls
Elizabeth waited until he had left and then promptly burst into laughter. She couldn’t help it, she had been soaked, threatened by a skunk, attacked by a dog and now given a moral lesson by a man that had threatened her with a Winchester earlier. She couldn’t remember ever having a better day.
— Grace Willows, Paws For Love
You can only love something that refuses to be mastered.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
To be sure, there's a warm passion behind what you say. But if you give in to that passion, friends, you're doing what I always warned you agin: you're a placing the satisfaction of your own feelings above the work you have to do... Don't you worry that John Faa's heart is too soft to strike a blow when the time comes. And the time will come under judgement. Not under passion.
— Philip Pullman
What I will add as an perfect example of a man who is passionate of his work, without wife, everything giving, no information about his life like mother, father or something like this... I will give as an example NightClawer. People often understand under this name some kind a horror, but unfortunately it's about a reporter and it's not horror. I will call it passion!
— Deyth Banger
For a short burst of time, we completely belong to each other, absorbed by the needs of our physicality, glued together by the passion of our lips.
— Lindsay Detwiler, Without You
I’ve been accused of having a death wish but I think it’s life that I wish for, terribly, shamelessly, on any terms whatsoever.
— Tennessee Williams, Sweet Bird of Youth
Passion lingers on a state of blissLove loves you more when you kiss
— Munia Khan
The writer of this legend then recordsIts ghostly application in these words:The image is the Adversary old,Whose beckoning finger points to realms of gold;Our lusts and passions are the downward stairThat leads the soul from a diviner air;The archer, Death; the flaming jewel, Life;Terrestrial goods, the goblet and the knife;The knights and ladies all whose flesh and boneBy avarice have been hardened into stone;The clerk, the scholar whom the love of pelfTempts from his books and from his nobler self.The scholar and the world! The endless strife,The discord in the harmonies of life!The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books;The market-place, the eager love of gain,Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Amy is a Sharpie
—  she's passionate.
Making love, sensing how he felt about her in the high tide of passion, seeing herself through his eyes, brought her to an ecstasy beyond words.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
There are kisses and kisses, I am told, and this must have been quite the other sort from Millie's resonant signals of regard.
— H.G. Wells
What you do with ease is your passion.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Having a passion for Christ and that's really what gives life a true meaning.
— Chris Chacko
What do you love to fulfill in life?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is better work without being paid to fulfill a divine purpose than to be rich without any fulfillment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Your calling connects with your passion.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When we follow our passion in life we choose to be in harmony with our inner nature.
— Jose Incer, Mastering Success: The Key to Self Empowerment and Higher Consciousnes
Use your passion to create a job.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You can buy a person’s time and work, but you cannot buy their enthusiasm, effort, and passion. Those are earned, and as such, given freely.
— Jeffrey Fry
In work, it is possible to find commitment, attachment, chemistry, and connection. In fact, it's high time that more people acknowledged the electric pull that women can feel for their profession, the exciting heat of ambition and frisson of success.
— Rebecca Traister, All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation