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The bed we loved in was a spinning world of forests, castles, torchlight, clifftops, seaswhere we would dive for pearls. My lover’s wordswere shooting stars which fell to earth as kisseson these lips; my body now a softer rhymeto his, now echo, assonance; his toucha verb dancing in the centre of a noun.Some nights, I dreamed he’d written me, the beda page beneath his writer’s hands. Romanceand drama played by touch, by scent, by taste.In the other bed, the best, our guests dozed on,dribbling their prose. My living laughing love -I hold him in the casket of my widow’s headas he held me upon that next bes
— Carol Ann Duffy, The World's Wife
He tasted passion. He tasted emotion. He tasted a world he’d never imagined, one he could never enter. It was right there in front of him, suddenly open to him. Unexpected. Exciting. Scary.
— Christine Feehan, Water Bound
It's all mine, it's all sacred.
— Coco J. Ginger
This is the very ecstasy of love,Whose violent property fordoes itselfAnd leads the will to desperate undertakingsAs oft as any passion under heavenThat does afflict our natures.
— William Shakespeare, ഹാംലെറ്റ് | Hamlet
That's the trouble with grand passions, of course. You can never entirely cleanse yourself of them. It's best to avoid them altogether.
— Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz
Passion - eventually it cools.
— Francesca Marciano, Casa Rossa
But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life.
— John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
— Antisthenes Pinto
Just keep being true to yourself, if you're passionate about something go for it. Don't sacrifice anything, just have fun.
— Blake Lewis
Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole.Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead.Allow both passion and courtesy into your life in equal measure, and be complete.
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and makes the whole life its tributary.
— George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
yes. Menace and danger, That's what passion is-dangerous love-love that put you at risk, that gets a hold of you and makes you do things you wouldn't normally do. It's the only love worth having..
— Elliot Mabeuse, A Good Student
A very special case. A few years more, and that pretty creature who you love too much, I think, will, without ever loving them, have known as many men as there are beads on her aunt's rosary. No happy medium! Either a nun or a monster! God's bosom or sensual passions! It would, perhaps, be better to put her in a convent, since we put hysterical women in the Saltpetriere! She does not know vice, she invents it!"That was ten years ago before the day our story begins and... Raoule was not a nun.
— Rachilde, Monsieur Venus: A Materialist Novel
Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame;It is the reflex of our earthly frame,That takes its meaning from the nobler part,And but translates the language of the heart.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Complete Poems
A caprice is handled like a stew, and the pepper is added at the last minute.
— Rachilde, Monsieur Venus: A Materialist Novel
An error of the passions is not the flowering of a great love, and merely the beauty of the human form is not capable of inspiring an eternity of mad attachment.
— Rachilde, Monsieur Venus: A Materialist Novel
Though either choice was good, one was truer to myself... Ultimately, I reflected on Geothe's invocation to 'make a commitment and the forces of the universe will conspire to make it happen' and chose the uncharted path.
— Jacqueline Novogratz, The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
Tenderness is the repose of passion.
— Joseph Joubert, The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert
When doing a job — any job — one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever.
— Hyman G. Rickover
A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.
— Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of life is to be found in passion—romantic passion, religious passion, passion for work and for play, passionate commitments in the face of what reason knows to be meaningless.
— Robert C. Solomon, Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of Life
They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the “blaze of passion” often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds and the sky over their heads and the earth under their feet. Perhaps their surrounding world, the strangers they met in the street, the wide expanses they saw on their walks, the rooms in which they lived or met, took more delight in their love than theythemselves did.
— Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
Passion was the antithesis of morality.
— Rabih Alameddine, I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
When you are fired because of laziness, dare to fire back with the spirit of enthusiasm. Rise up at the same time and at the same place that you have fallen. You can’t give up!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
...she cried because prejudice outlives passion and because she was sentimentally patriotic.
— Irène Némirovsky
How can you claim to have a passionate interest in something, and then make no effort to properly understand it?
— Simon Cheshire, Plastic Fantastic
Passion precedes prosperity.
— Andrew Hildreth
An extreme passion of any human being is to be unique
— Kunal Jajal
Every motion she made was slow, as if she’d never before put her arms around a man, and didn’t know for certain where everything fit. When at last they were pressed close, she didn’t think she’d know how to let go when the time came. They summarized the course of passion with kisses: a chaste, half-frightened brush of the lips metamorphosed into something fierce and fast-burning, which in its turn became a more patient, more intimate touch, full of inquiry and shared pleasure.
— Emma Bull, War for the Oaks
I do not say that I could never be persuaded to sacrifice my reputation to passion- only that it would take a great deal.
— Jude Morgan, Indiscretion
Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.
— Joseph J. Ellis, His Excellency: George Washington
I resist my temptations in order to feel i am free.
— Mike Gayle, My Legendary Girlfriend
I can't find a man I want, and I'm beginning to think the problem is me. Maybe I expect too much. Maybe I'm holding out for something that doesn't even exist." She'd voiced her secret fear. Maybe grand passion was just a dream. With all the kissing she'd done in the past few months, she'd not once been overcome with desire. Her parents certainly hadn't had any great passion between them. Come to think of it, she wasn't sure she'd ever seen grand passion outside of a movie theater or a book.
— Karen Marie Moning
It is a fact that the bitterest contradictions and the deadliest conflicts of the world are carried on in every individual breast capable of feeling and passion. [An anarchist]
— Joseph Conrad, A Set Of Six
Her taste still teased my tongue, and her touch tipped my fingers. Her smile licked my lips, and her heart beat my own. So I tugged on her sheets, like it was a cape. To me, she was a God damned super hero, and underneath, was everything I need. Her super powers on top of me.
— J. Raymond
To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.
— Confucius
I want your hand without the skin. Bone to bone without the molds. Mouth to mouth, without the porn.
— Coco J. Ginger
If its danger you seek, come on over. I covet tranquility but beget the tempest storm.
— Donna Lynn Hope
He had to feel those lips on him again. Had. To. This wasn’t a mild expression of preference. This was an imperative. His body was insistent. To continue hisexistence on this earth, he now needed the following: food, water, shelter, clothing, and Minerva Highwood’s lips.
— Tessa Dare, A Week to Be Wicked
The Herondales are a rather infamous line, as you probably know. Many of them heroes, some of them traitors, so many of them brash, wild creatures consumed by their passions, whether it be love or hate.
— Cassandra Clare, The Lost Herondale
Some people confuse intensity for passion and challenge for attraction.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Wrong. Enemies don't fight with such determined passion. That kind of focus is reserved for friends at odds with one another."pg 69 Tomas to Vlad
— Heather Brewer, Twelfth Grade Kills
The passion for destruction is also a creative passion
— Mikhail Bakunin
The Lover ReconsidersWait... You. Come hither come closer come here,shrug and wriggle your way out of those clothes, shed them like baby teeth, like snakeskin, like feathers from the molt of a phoenixcome here let me hold you let my arms draw you closer come hither let me be suffused with your scent come here now. I want to kiss you, I want to kiss you, I want to kiss my way down your body and back up again give me your guided tour, teach me of your landmarks those hips of yours are strangers to my touch but I mean to make their acquaintance so yes there here I want to kiss you I want to learn what you whisper when you kiss with your heart’s shutters openI want to nip at your lower lip I want the rush of blood to make that mouth tingle I want to talk in quiet tones to all of you come hither come closer come hereNow, bolt the door, now, unplug the phone, now warn the neighbors to ignore the racket I do not want fifteen minutes of your time I want the whole fucking night. Now let me see the smile you save for special occasions Now don’t pick a favorite position pick five Now I want to bathe myself in you Now now now like the Ganges, like the Red Sea, like the Amazon I want to follow you down to your ocean Now I want to savor you, lover, come to memake time and I will make you breakfastI want to become overfamiliar with your tastes come hither come closer come here come now you.
— Patrick Honovich, Thirst
Sometimes while you are so passionately busy building, there will be others as busy destroying. Do not stop. One day you will notice how high above you get, and how down below they end up
— Sameh Elsayed
Don't let bad thoughts deceive you into thinking that you have to feel bad. Be aware and conscious of it and choose to think good thoughts whenever you are bombarded with the bad.Remember to live your life passionately!
— Osayi Emokpae Lasisi, Impossible Is Stupid
Malick to Jacin: "There is no trade anymore, you're not nothing, you didn't kill Caidi, you're going to be the most beautiful-dangerous Incendiary the gods have ever seen, and I fucking love you. Deal with it.
— Carole Cummings
You are a guardian ... arent you?"He nailed me with his eyes. "Yes.""So .... why are you with me?
— Georgia Kakalopoulou, Θεοί και φύλακες
And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.
— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Like animals we call to each other," was the thought that came to him as he remembered the hour of love in the afternoon.
— Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
Oh,' said a very white body as it threw a wrist watch to the ground which broke without attracting anyone's attention, 'Oh, how can anyone not love poetry, natural machines, large white houses, the brilliance of steel, crimes and wild passions?
— Robert Desnos
Nothing can be more slightly defined than the line of demarcation between sanity and insanity ... Make the definition too narrow, it becomes meaningless; make it too wide, and the whole human race becomes involved in the dragnet. In strictness we are all mad when we give way to passion, to prejudice, to vice, to vanity; but if all the passionate, prejudiced and vain people were to be locked up as lunatics, who is to keep the key to the as
— Kate Summerscale, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
If you create and market a product or service through a business that is in alignment with your personality, capitalizes on your history, incorporates your experiences, harnesses your talents, optimizes your strengths, complements your weaknesses, honors your life's purpose, and moves you towards the conquest of your own fears, there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY that anyone in this or any other universe can offer the same value that you do!
— Walt F.J. Goodridge, Turn Your Passion Into Profit 2006 Edition
As you have been on the road, what have you been hearing from readers about A RELIABLE WIFE?RG: The most interesting question came from a young man in his 30s who asked me to discuss the relationship between love and aging. We think when we’re young that, as we get older, our passions and enthusiasms will fade, will lose their hold on us, and we will enter into some more gentle phase. I don’t find it to be true. Our passions, in fact, intensify, like a sauce that has been reduced to its essence by long slow simmering over a low flame.
— Robert Goolrick
I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.
— George Brett
He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart.
— Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
..And because he was still able to move his hands - Morrie always spoke with both hands waving - he showed great passion when explaining how you face the end of life.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
I’ve always marveled that geese can feel a call stirring, rise on hardy wings to engage it, and without contemplation, compass or map complete the feat. And could it be that they achieve this astounding accomplishment because far too often contemplation, compass or map rob the call by sterile analysis when we should liberate the call through expectant obedience.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Every man who is acutely alive is acutely wrestling his own soul.
— D.H. Lawrence, Women in love
You need fire, conviction, to write. You can't write out of indifference.
— Marty Rubin
Use your passion and expertise to provide long term value and innovative solutions for your clients
— Benjamin Kofi Quansah
My passion is to keep my clients permanently satisfied with the quality of my work
— Benjamin Kofi Quansah
I give 100% to my job because I love what I do. I get 101% in return. What great things love, attitude, passion, and hard work can accomplish!
— Benjamin Kofi Quansah
I'm a tad insane, but I promise you won't forget me.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Desire. Enthusiasm. Purpose. Pleasure. Delight. Peace. Power. However you define passion, it is at the heart of your motivation.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Feeling passion fuels your spirit and feeds your joy.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Passion is a catalyst for action and provides you with the emotional stamina to stick with it, regardless of the obstacles.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Every day should have threads of passionate pursuits within it.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Think of the times in your life when you have been deeply passionate about something. Whether it is for your family, a cause, a person, an adventure, a hobby, a career, a love for music, or even going to the beach—your passion for it helps you tap into your unique personal power to live and love your life out loud.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
What turns you on, tunes you in, and lights your fire?
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
When passion is lit, the fire permeates your being with the positive expectation that all is well and everything will turn out great.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
To be truly satisfied that your life is well-lived, the object of your passion is something you feel you must be, do, or have. What lights your fire?
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Passion is not just about the object of your focus or desires—it is the compelling emotion, fulfillment, and intense enthusiasm that it engenders.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Are you impressed when you meet people who are filled with passion and conviction? Their energy is contagious and can make us all want “some of what they’re having!
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
When a person exudes passion, it is evident that they love what they are doing. Their passion projects an aura of confidence and decisiveness.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Sharing your passion with others will not only enlighten them to your dedication and commitment, it can enable you to garner their participation, collaboration, cooperation, and endorsement.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
When we are deeply passionate about something, the obstacles or challenges are diminished by sheer will and desire.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
When you want something badly enough, it does not matter whether it is going to be easy. The passion will push you forward.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
When people are not passionate about their goals, everything is more of a struggle.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Passion is the fire that gets us moving and keeps us motivated regardless of what roadblocks impede the way.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
When your passion is aligned with your purpose, you are unstoppable! It is in that zone of high octane congruence that you are turned on and "cooking with gas.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Passionate people are great about discovering what lights their fire and going for it. They might be encouraged by others who share their passion, but they don’t rely on others to tell them what they need to do or how they need to do it.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
One of the most terrifying questions of all might be, ‘Will I unleash myself to live before death unleashes me from the ability to be unleashed?’ And in retrospect, maybe it’s not the question that’s terrifying. Maybe what’s terrifying is the answer.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
It wouldn't be fair to Chevy, and it wouldn't be fair to me. The love I had for him was consuming and powerful and raw. I briefly close my eyes as memories of Chevy's hands on my body and his lips on mine cause warmth to curl in my bloodstream...Even when we fought, we never had problems with attraction.
— Katie McGarry, Long Way Home
They’d reached the point of no return, and she wanted to throw herself into the fire until the flames melted away the years of ice that claimed her.
— Katherine McIntyre, Captured Memories
Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.
— Jon Bon Jovi
Since the age of fifteen poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or performed any relationship that seemed inconsistent with poetic principles
—  which has sometimes won me the reputation of an eccentric.
Since the age of fifteen poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any relationship that seemed inconsistent with poetic principles
—  which has sometimes won me the reputation of an eccentric.
You are not going to burn out, you're just beginning. You have an entire galaxy of stars burning fiercely inside of you and once the blaze begins it's impossible to annihilate. Passion can't be contained.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
I am dead to you, but you are living in me.
— Haritha Velpureddy
When your attention is for the most important things, you mind the most important things! Give your attention to the most important things, and don't let anything at all get you thinking about anything! Have a true passion for living; you are here to accomplish a true mission!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
You want to show me your wrath? You want to hurt me, so show me. We can take this to the bedroom if you like—the bed might be reduced to kindling, but I’m willing to take that chance. Now fight me,” he growled aloud, his obsidian eyes narrowing to angry slits. “Show me what you are becoming.
— R. W. Patterson, Dark Night of the Soul: In the darkest of moments...a sacrifice to end a life...a rescue to save a soul.
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 having a better day.
— Grace Willows
Sacrifice is a passion that unleashes everything away from us so that it can be drawn into everyone around us.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
No matter what, you cannot run from who you are.
— Nikhil Shrivastava
I understood the ominous sky because it was so much like you, and I was the sun always willing to burn for our love.
— Melody  Lee
We focus on the reasons why we ‘can’t’ at the expense of the far greater reasons why we ‘can’.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
There is beauty in each word of a Book
—  as once it was just a mere thought in the authors head!
He became so gloomy that she asked him, at last, if he was worried about anything. He assured her, instantly, that he was the happiest man in the world. And he was. At times he was almost bewildered by his own bliss in being there, with Tony, so terribly dear, beside him; really his own for the rest of his life. It was not her fault if the insatiable sorrows of an unequal love tormented him, the hungry demand for more, for a fuller return, for a feeling which it was not in her nature to give. As she leaned forward, absorbed in the passions staged beneath her, he felt suddenly that their box contained just himself and a wraith, a ghost; as if the real Antonia, whom he loved, was an imagined woman living only in his sad fancy.
— Margaret Kennedy, The Constant Nymph
These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.
— Christine de Pizan, The Selected Writings
Ah. That is the price of love, I'm afraid—the pain one suffers from its loss. I'm not convinced it's worth it. Perhaps if one must love, one should do so in moderation.""Moderation in love," she mused aloud. "It's not something that would inspire a poet, is it?""A poet's view of the world would make for an uncomfortable life, wouldn't it? Everyone at the mercy of his or her passions, all of us tearing our hair out for the sake of love...
— Lisa Kleypas
Selling is serving, helping others find solutions, impacting lives positively with passion and integrity.
— Farshad Asl
Keep your passions burning brightly.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
The big-ass hole, all of the wreckage and mess. I'd done that. Me,
— Kylie Scott, Twist
You've got drama too?' 'Doesn't everyone?' 'A side effect of breathing, I guess.
— Kylie Scott, Dirty
Passion will fuel your determination to move mountains
— Mayur Ramgir
He was the piece of paper she would set on fire.
— Kim Pape
Because of that, he didn't know how to love someone who actually loved him. He had learned a twisted, tormented kind of love filled with pain and exploitation.
— Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Noah's Story
Either you fulfill your mission or make money. Choose the former.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
— N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
— Henry Moore
What would I do to possess her? Would I change my cellular structure? Turn my back on my identity?
— C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games
I’m his puppet and he is my invisible master, holding my strings from miles away.
— Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited
But I was 22 when I started this job, and you know what? Sometimes it really is okay to just have a fucking job. Not a passion, not a career, but a steadfast source of bi-weekly income deposited directly into a checking account from which food, and medicine, and apps one totally forgot about having downloaded will be paid for.
— Samantha Irby, We Are Never Meeting In Real Life
and the castle in which she dwelt was a prison to her; and sometimes sudden fits of gusty passion would overtake her, for weariness grew to hate, and hate to wrath,"The Serpent's Head
— Lady Dilke
She averted his eyes, but not before he recognized the pain in them, a tormented and languished gaze, a stare preserved for people who were able to love deeply enough that they could be destroyed by it. For a moment, he knew that gaze intimately, remembering it from a time long gone. The ache of a shattered belief once known. He knew that feeling.
— Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Noah's Story
I worked hard as [fuck] to get here.
— Jackson Lanzing, Joyride Vol. 2
She averted his eyes, but not before he recognized the pain in them, a tormented and languished gaze, a stare preserved for people who were able to love deeply enough that they could be destroyed by it.
— Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Noah's Story
I could never, I knew then, lose myself "in love." Margery had accused me of coldness, and she was right, but she was also wrong: For me, for always, the paramount organ of passion was the mind. Unnatural, unbalanced, perhaps, but it was true: Without intellect, there could be no love.
— Laurie R. King, A Monstrous Regiment of Women
Been Passionate means knowing who you are and what you really want out of life.
— ANIKOR Daniel
Passion helps to prove your inner worth.
— ANIKOR Daniel
Rise up & attack the day with Passion. The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.
— Napz Cherub Pellazo
Carol was like a secret spreading through her.
— Highsmith, Patricia
Intimacy cannot be expressed discursively. The swelling to the bursting point, the malice that breaks out with clenched teeth and weeps; the sinking feeling that doesn't know where it comes from or what it's about; the fear that sings its head off in the dark; the white-eyed pallor, the sweet sadness, the rage and the vomiting...are so many evasions. What is intimate, in the strong sense, is what has the passion of an absence of individuality, the imperceptible sonority of a river, the empty limpidity of the sky
— Georges Bataille
Winning is irreplaceable winners are.
— Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel
Don't let this consume you. Try not to blame me. Don't live in hate. Or grief. Just live.
— Jackson Lanzing, Joyride Vol. 2
Of course, while Katherine took the accolades in stride, she never took the work for granted. Not a morning dawned that she didn't wake up eager to get to the office. The passion that she had for her job was a gift, one that few people ever experienced.
— Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
But there is an overarching passion that keeps me alive. That is love, understood as a condition in which I can be an inspiration, make someone feel happy and special, and in turn, feel understood and driven. I function better if I am in that condition of love, and I try to cultivate that daily.
— Giovanni Frazzetto
Kindle yourself in your spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I think he was trying to tell us that life is not about achieving one great thing, because once that thing is over, life keeps going. What motivates you then? The important thing is having a passion, something you love doing, and the greatest joy in the world is that you get to wake up every day and do it.
— Mike Massimino, Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
The important thing in life is having a passion, something you really love doing, and you take joy in the fact that you get to wake up every day and do it.
— Mike Massimino, Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Working hard for something we do not care about is called stress, working hard for something we love is called passion.
— Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Your gift lies in your soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is comfort, even among strangers, when people find something they are equally passionate about.
— Joyce Rachelle
Work done by you with unconditional love and pure devotion goes straight in the category of divine and immortal craft.
— Seema Brain Openers
But Bryony knew what he was feeling, and about three weeks after the massaging had begun, she gave him a potion that Eswara had given her, a concoction of cinnamon, mace, cloves, nutmeg and lavender which she had said would send the blood rushing through all parts of his anatomy. All.
— Sorcha MacMurrough, The Model Master
Today, she is standing at the top of a mountain and appreciating the majestic panoramic view of mesmerizing Himalaya. As a kid, she used to look up in the sky and wish for wings to fly up to the mountains. And now after a long wait of many years, she is standing here and living her dream. It’s the moment when she can’t believe her eyes because what she always dreamed of has come alive. She looks with amazement as if she’s witnessing a miracle. It is the moment of her life. She just wants to feel it. There are beautiful clouds below her and there are snow clad mountain peaks emerging from those clouds. The white peaks shining in blue sky among white clouds look like glittering diamonds to her. The view of the large lush green meadow surrounded by mountains under blue sky with a rainbow circling the horizon has put her in a state of tranquility. As the sun starts drowning in the horizon, the sky begins to boast his mystical colours. The beautiful mix of pink, orange and red looks like creating a twilight saga. She opens her both arm and takes a deep breath to entwine with the nature. The glimmering rays of the moon are paying tribute to her by kissing her warm cheeks and her eyes twinkle in bright moon light. She raises her face towards the moon and senses the flood of memories which she wants to unleash. The cool breeze lifts her ruffled hair and blows her skirt up. She closes her eyes and breathes deep as if she wants to let her know that she is finally here and then she opens her eyes and finds herself on the same wheelchair inside a room with an empty wall in front of her eye. Tears rolls down from her eye but these are the tears of Joy because she is living her dreams today. The feelings comes to her mind while waiting for her daughter who is coming back home today after her first expedition of a high range mountain ~ AB
— Ashish Bhardwaj
A person of large dreams does not allow other people’s opinion to damper his or her zestfulness. Overcoming fear of making an irreversible, lifetime mistake is the first step of living an artistic existence.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Do not make passion an argument for truth! - O you good-natured and even noble enthusiasts, I know you! You want to win your argument against us, but also against yourself, and above all against yourself!and a subtle and tender bad conscience so often incites you against your enthusiasm! How ingenious you then become in the outwitting and deadening of this conscience! How you hate the honest, the simple, the pure, how you avoid their innocent eyes! That knowing better whose representatives they are and whose voice you hear all too loudly within you, how it casts doubt on your belief- how you seek to make it suspect as a bad habit, as a sickness of the age, as neglect and infection of your own spiritual health! You drive yourself to the point of hating criticism, science, reason! You have to falsify history so that it may bear witness for you, you have to deny virtues so that they shall not cast into the shade those of your idols and ideals! Coloured pictures where what is needed is rational grounds! Ardour and power of expression! Silvery mists! Ambrosial nights! You understand how to illuminate and how to obscure, and how to obscure with light! And truly, when your passion rises to the point of frenzy, there comes a moment when you say to yourself: now I have conquered the good conscience, now I am light of heart, courageous, self-denying, magnificent, now I am honest! How you thirst for those moments when your passion bestows on you perfect self-justification and as it were innocence; when in struggle, intoxication, courage, hope, you are beside yourself and beyond all doubting; when you decree: 'he who is not beside himself as we are can in no way know what and where truth is!' How you thirst to discover people of your belief in this condition - it is that of intellectual vice - and ignite your flame at their torch! Oh your deplorable martyrdom! Oh your deplorable victory of the sanctified lie! Must you inflict so much suffering upon yourself? - Must you?
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
. She was beautiful, and her temperament seemed much better than his first wife did. Arman stopped in the middle of the Windsor knot on his tie. Who was he trying to kid, he thought. An enraged rabid pit bull in heat would have had a better temperament then his first wife.
— Grace Willows
Everyone has got something to give.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life and whatever you do in your time in this world should not be a chore. You will be spending a lot of time doing it anyway. Every moment should be fuelled by your passion. It’s your reason. It’s your why.
— Kevin Abdulrahman, The Book on What Ever You're Into: These Are the 52 Timeless Winning Truths You Need to Know to Have a Chance at Winning
If the men were without passions, it would be forgivable to see Machiavel try to give some to them; he would be the new [[Prometheus]] bringing celestial fire to breathe life into robots. But no man is without passions. When they are moderated, they are the heart of the enterprise; but when the brake is stripped of them, they are its destruction.
— Frederick the Great, Anti-Machiavel
The time for careers and passions was gone. Hunger pangs displaced ambition.
— Panashe Chigumadzi, Sweet Medicine
If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger - something that matters.
— Blake Mycoskie, Start Something That Matters
Never trust people who don't have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.
— Fredrik Backman, Beartown
That we may not fall short of desire, but let us give way to the unspoken passion hidden in the closet of our discretion. (“Crépuscule du désir”)
— Erik Pevernagie
If you want to miss your crown, follow the crowd. If you want to wear the crown, go alone and be yourself.
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
We have a positive power of choice and this is tool we should use to carve greatness out of challenges.
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
Don’t lose the positive power to make right choices that will convert your tears into smiles.
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
Strive hard to be among the top performers. To do this, create a standard. Go higher than this standard. Set another higher standard; surpass it and repeat the process.
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
Change makers take risks and are ready to die for excellence than to give excuses and live for mediocrity.
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
Dare to be among the greatest. Even if you did not get the best, you will be above the good.
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
If you stay passionate and committed, mediocrity will never be eager to befriend you.
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
Don't follow the crowd. The side of the majority is the riskiest place to have dust thrown on your uniqueness.
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
Do what is uncommon
—  do it in the uncommon way
Take your own route, not the route everyone is using or taking. Create your own way; there is always traffic on the common route.
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
If love has taken us for a ride and passion made us ignore sham and swindle, the time has come to separate the wheat from the chaff and polish up diamonds of trust, neatly, day by day. ("Taken for a ride")
— Erik Pevernagie
A spark of every fire we seek is already within us.
— Kamand Kojouri
Pay attention to what you wish you were doing when you're doing something else.
— Joyce Rachelle
Even that exquisite hunger he aroused at her, fiercely sweet as it might be, posed a threat to her sanity.
— Lyn Ducoty, A Pocketful of Dreams
You said that once before. Actually - a slow smile curved his mouth - that's one of the reasons I came today. I'm ready to give you a lesson in loving me.
— Lyn Ducoty, A Pocketful of Dreams
When you consistently complain about the things you are gifted to do, check your motivation.
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
I would rather suffer with passion than not feel anything at all.
— N.R.Hart
I have a distinct air of myself standing amidst such a crowd of people. My eyes set above, looking at the tall building if it bespeaks a promising note. I don’t know how fair is life, All I know is I have a plan to alter the face of it, the way I choose. A purpose, a driving motive, and an obsession.
— Parul Wadhwa, The Masquerade
My heart still speaks of our fire.
— N.R.Hart
It's not sad that I don't love you anymore, it's I can't love anyone anymore.
— Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel
To get answers, ask questions; but to get good answers, ask good questions.
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
No one made sense of the love they shared. They didn't get the hang of it either. But together, the clocks of winter stopped.. And autumn's fallen leaves turned, swiftly, scarlet.
— Malak El Halabi
Dissimilar from acquiring riches and fame, which are largely products of providence, we self-manufacture our own lot of goodness. If we ground everything we do upon a moral principle and especially love, affection, and compassion, we might not accomplish all the goals that we hoped to achieve, but we will not be hampered with unyielding regret or remorse for the effort expended. If we approach each stage in life with true passion, then each step along a broken or straight path is at least honest. If we honor the commitments that we make to ourselves and act to honor all our personal obligations with other people by devoting our entire intelligence, drive, and vital life force, and do not waste our effort on greedy, wanton, or wasteful activities, we shall grow stronger. Judicious deployment of personal resources ensures that we shall experience a sense of renewal at each important milepost along the way. If we maintain our vow of faith and love people freely, an internal lightness will guide us in our time of uncertainly.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
A life of devotion to one's passion gives us meaning to our life.
— Avijeet Das
The dominant in him not liking me turning my back on him but the man in him dying to have me. The fire in his eyes scared and excited me at the same time because I knew in that moment he said fuck the rules.
— LaSasha Flame, Exposed Kinky Edition
A writer needs solitude : moments that he can spend in introspection and in reflection. These moments make him pensive and thoughtful and help him write his thoughts with clarity. A life of devotion to one's passion gives us meaning to our life.
— Avijeet Das
The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown....To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three.
— Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
Passion is never pathetic.
— J.C. Lillis, A&B
Our passion is what we have been designed to do so as not to get bored between being born and death.
— Ben Tolosa, Masterplan Your Success
Jobs suck, but when you work on your passion, it is never a job, no matter how hard and how long you have to work.
— Ben Tolosa, Masterplan Your Success
When you work on what you love, you have the best job in the world.
— Ben Tolosa, Masterplan Your Success
Build my night with your cheeks.
— Malak El Halabi
You have the body of a god and the smile of a demon. I walk towards you, barefoot, a believer walking a religious path. I wrap my arms around your neck, a priest hugging his crucifix. I offer you my all. Burn me like incense. Let's make all the church bells in hell ring just for us.
— Malak El Halabi
Passion must be subject to reason; emotions lead one astray. "There was no one to complain to in the woods, so I did not complain.
— Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
Love opens the most impossible gates in the world.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree
Respect your passion and work on it. Your passion will respect you back.
— Keyur Kumbhare
It may take us years and years to find our true calling in life. But one fine day, we eventually do find it! Till then make merry, laugh, fight, dance and enjoy the craziness...
— Avijeet Das
What you envision for yourself is far more likely to become a lifelong passion than anything someone can drop into your lap. This is a reminder that pursuing my vision for my life is not a waste of time. Detours happen. They become experience. With experience, accomplishment is only a matter of time.
— LaShawnda Jones
A person who magnanimously exhibits their passion allows us to witness their authentic personality whereas a cold and calculating personality remains inscrutable.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Never, baby. Between us, the sun is never going down.
— J. Kenner, Release Me
Living deeply requires more than a static vivisection of a person’s history and a cold survey of the world. Living a meaningful life entails immersion in the continuous flow of life through passionate thinking, observation, and directed action.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
I like in my free time to walk.
— Deyth Banger, Notes Of A Dead Man Sequel
What I do is the truest mirror of who I am.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Passion belongs to nothing and reason belong to many things that’s why reason it is better than passion.
— Zaman Ali, Humanity
A woman may get to love by degrees—the best fire does not flare up the soonest.
— George Eliot, Adam Bede
Be ambitious, Spend time wanting, pursuing, wishing. Chase things with passion. Dream but never let the chase diminish what you already have.
— Unknown
We witness the miracle of redemption together with people of like passion
— Sunday Adelaja
Increase in passion gives empowerment to reap the harvest
— Sunday Adelaja
Discover continually until you are consumed with a passion to know God
— Sunday Adelaja
God shows us his plan and connects us with others who share the same passion to extend his kingdom
— Sunday Adelaja
The passion of God is to restore and reclaim the whole earth
— Sunday Adelaja
Your passion is that part of the earth where God has placed you
— Sunday Adelaja
Your lifestyle should reflect your passion
— Sunday Adelaja
It is the passion of God that empowers to impact lives
— Sunday Adelaja
It is the will of God that becomes the passion of the believer
— Sunday Adelaja
There ought to be laughter in love. But there also ought to be wonder.
— Thomas Burnett Swann, How Are the Mighty Fallen
A man’s love for a man is neither more nor less than a man’s love for a woman, it is only different.
— Thomas Burnett Swann, How Are the Mighty Fallen
I bleed passion. I’m not entirely sure what this means but I’m greedy over the words. They’re so full of life. And I really need some life to balance out the desperate allure of the dark.
— Marley Jacobs, Goodnight, Nic
To be consumed with passion is to be gallant to discover
— Sunday Adelaja
Passion Ignited Is A Sign Of New Discovered
— Sunday Adelaja
Passion Ignited Is A Sign Of New Discovery
— Sunday Adelaja
An Ignited Passion Results In Purpose Accomplishment
— Sunday Adelaja
An Ignited Passion Plus Purity Is Required To Accomplish Purpose
— Sunday Adelaja
To Live Out The Kingdom Is A Passion For Life
— Sunday Adelaja
To follow a passion is to be consecrated
— Sunday Adelaja
Let others think what they like: for me, the culmination of life consists of a pure and subtly dramatic passion.
— José Ortega y Gasset, On Love: Aspects of a Single Theme
When passion rises to its full expression, it touches the soul and lifts the spirit.
— R.A.Delmonico
Everyone thinks to the extent of their depravity.” #HenriettaLedyanova, #FatefulItalianPassion
— OlgaGOA
There are few overnight successes and many up-all-night successes.
— Kevin Ashton, How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery
He put his fist against his chest. “Burn, Maddygirl,” he said. Then he turned and left her in the flickering gloom and thunder.
— Laura Kinsale, Flowers from the Storm
Cooking like a Michelin star chef without a recipe requires high intuition but only a little skill, a lot of imagination, and willingness to be curious and innovative. Kitchen to me is one of the art studios, but here only creating new dishes and drinks. Creativity is not just a job position or function but it is the attitude to life. From the office to kitchen or streets, anything, anytime should able to move you, inspire you, touch your emotions and others. After all Once you love what you do, you will eventually become a master of it, the only way to master of something be real with it.
— Baris Gencel
Being caught up in a game without having a clue about the rules, may be extremely maddening and frustrating. Liberty may be so frightening and grueling, that many don’t conceal their passion for rules and regulations, since these can give a relieving feeling of security and protection. ("When forgetting the rules of the game" )
— Erik Pevernagie
Poetry is like passion--it should not be merely pretty
—  it should overwhelm and bruise.
Know what you want to accomplish in life, identify your purpose, and align it with your passion.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
Once I have impounded love and towed it into the confine of words, I have lost it altogether.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Lightning rod to ignite people's passion for software development
— John Nava
A legacy is the impact and impression an individual makes and leaves behind in the lives of others; it no longer represents the individual, it represents the people who carry on his or her name with passion and integrity.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
The definition of being committed is getting things done with absolutely no excuse, with an unshakeable and undeniable passion and with an uncompromised integrity.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
What would your young students say, who have come so far to hear you and prefer your severe lectures to ease of a worldly life, if they should discover you secretly a slave to your passions and a victim of those weaknesses from which your rules secured them?
— Emily  Williams, Letters to Eloise
We are all a slave to our passions
— Emily  Williams, Letters to Eloise