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Your life is enriched with meaning when allow yourself to become inspired, set goals, and charge after them with passion.
— Julie Connor, Dreams to Action Trailblazer's Guide
Let your faith in the Universe deepen, purify and strengthen most on your troublesome, dark days. If you close your eyes in prayer, surrendering every problem and desire, you will find a way out without fail.
— Pooja Ruprell
From today, may you cease to exist except as an expression of the divine intention of your Creator. May you tune in to the celestial melody of love, compassion and courage each and every moment of the day. May all the relationships in your life represent the perfect opportunities to fulfill your true calling.
— Pooja Ruprell
Faith determines your destiny, not your reality.
— Pooja Ruprell
When we make appreciation the central theme of our value system, then all the painful elements of our past become meaningful lessons we could not have done without. Acceptance becomes natural when we become adept at finding the silver lining, even in the most challenging circumstances.
— Pooja Ruprell
Tears are the silent passion for suffering
— Christopher Poindexter
If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.
— Antonin Artaud, The Theater and Its Double
In the search for truth,what you believe matters lessthan how you believe.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
The passion for war is so intense that there is no undertaking so mad, or so injurious to the welfare of the State, that a man does not consider himself honored in defending it, at the risk of his life.
— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Trust life. Trust your Creator. He will not deliver you to anything but the best.
— Pooja Ruprell
Be the light. Be the love. Not to one or two selectively, but to each person who crosses your path today and every day.
— Pooja Ruprell
Look for excuses to celebrate others, and life will find a way to celebrate you.Make your life a prayer and be the light that touches lives far, wide and beyond.
— Pooja Ruprell
You are beautiful, brilliant, perceptive and pure beyond compare. Your folly lies in being unaware of your inner power and living a mediocre existence.
— Pooja Ruprell
The shift in thought frequency of a single individual has enough energy to light up the world’s lighthouses—we hold that much power within us.
— Pooja Ruprell
Truly worthy are those who become brighter as the days get cloudier so that their light shines through, regardless of how hard the clouds are working to block their radiance.
— Pooja Ruprell
Where there is a blanket of hate, uplift it with the strong arms of love. If there is pain, heal it with your kind words and gentle touch. In the face of anger, stay so calm and unfazed that anger leaves the room.
— Pooja Ruprell
Cherish every person and all opportunities. Have no fears, no doubts and no regrets. Focus on what you can give, not on what you can get.
— Pooja Ruprell
Practice unfettered living from the heart, abandoning all self-imposed limitations to emerge a new, creativity unleashed, giving of yourself like never before.
— Pooja Ruprell
Delivering everyday greatness, or not, is up to you.
— Pooja Ruprell
Pave the path. Inspire. Make sure you are missed by the people who matter long after you have gone.
— Pooja Ruprell
Being a messenger of love is all about caring for every person in your orbit unconditionally and ceaselessly. The harder the other person makes it for you, the more love you need to send their way.
— Pooja Ruprell
The instant you take the lead in the tug-of-war with your ego, enlightenment becomes your state of being.
— Pooja Ruprell
Get crazy in prayer. Ask for the seemingly impossible
—  then watch it happen. Do not make judgments on what you are worthy of. Save the practicality for other aspects of your life.
Prayer is a connection from your heart with a force that is powerful beyond measure, loves unconditionally and impartially, and embraces you whenever you turn to it.
— Pooja Ruprell
Within you exists the same power that rests with the Universe, for you are not separate from the source you pray to.
— Pooja Ruprell
Do not turn to prayer only in times of grief, suffering and rage. Make prayer a habit whether you are blissful or sorrowful, serene or upset, clear or confused.
— Pooja Ruprell
A clear prayer for which you take sole responsibility has no option but to manifest, if not today or tomorrow, then the day after that.
— Pooja Ruprell
Make gratitude a habit you indulge in each night.
— Pooja Ruprell
When in prayer, there is no need to implore, beg or repeat. You have been heard, and your wishes will be granted perfectly at the right time. Relax, be patient and do not fret.
— Pooja Ruprell
The power to accomplish the life of your dreams rests with none other than you. Whatever holds you back is also within you.
— Pooja Ruprell
You have been called. Know that. Understand that. Imprint it deep in your heart and set out on your mission in whatever way you can, here and now! The world is waiting for you.
— Pooja Ruprell
If today is the last day of your life, the one thing you want to say is that you showed up for life. You showed up for your dreams. You showed up for the people who mattered to you. And above all, you showed up for yourself.
— Pooja Ruprell
Love, is there even a true description other than knowing your heart will cease to beat without that certain someone in your life?-Rusty Blackwood
— Rusty Blackwood, Passions In Paris: Revelations Of A Lost Diary
Be thankful for all you gain. Be thankful for what you lose, too. Find a reason each day to celebrate your life.
— Pooja Ruprell
Our eternal existence depends not on how much we have, or the network and power structure we have attained, and definitely not on our title or accomplishments at work. It depends on how much courage we exhibit in difficult times, the number of people we bring a smile to, and our sincerity at work, home and in society.
— Pooja Ruprell
We're going to right the world and live. I mean live our lives the way lives were meant to be lived. With the throat and wrists. With rage and desire, and joy and grief, and love till it hurts, maybe. But goddamn, girl. Live.
— Sandra Cisneros
He sees passion in her gray eyes, and it scares him as all passion scares him, his own included.
— John le Carré, The Constant Gardener
Her secret? It is every artist's secret--passion. That is all. It is an open secret, and perfectly safe. Like heroism, it is inimitable in cheap materials.
— Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark
When the world asks "what was it like?" Only the photographer can say "See!
— Mark Denman
The bent head, the averted eye, the faltering voice, the wincing figure- these, and not the unshrinking gaze and frank reply, are the true signals of passion.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World
The photographer does the world a great disservice when he leaves his camera at home.
— Mark Denman
The photographer does the world a great disservice when she leaves her camera at home.
— Mark Denman
Within the nature of every person is a desire to feel appreciated, to feel needed, and to be loved.
— Ellen J. Barrier, The Price We Must Pay for Our Father's Sins
Four Day’s Four Night’sMy desire her eyesHer attention my lifeI claim she refuses..!In the passion of hopeI wasAll day all nightHer ignorance my fallI like rides so I movedI know now she wantsAfter immense instanceWe metWith less in words..!Exchanging thru eyes a lotJovial and congenialAll day all nightI claim again..!Response remains..?My hope is my ecstasyYour woe is your waitI hope…!You sense the harmonyOf my bond on two wheelsYou will alwaysMy first loveTill the ceaseI loved youAll days all nights
— Rocky13
My passion for human ecology was not a drive for closure—but rather the joy of endless openings and newfound connections. There is no final goal or perfect completion, only the expanding experience of being alive.
— Richard J. Borden, Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective
Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.
— Allie Burke, Paper Souls
Attraction is so much more than a pretty face. It’s face is passion, attitude, kindness, & faith.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
For those who were born lovers, falling in love is not neither an option nor a decision. it is a matter of existence.
— Sameh Elsayed
The theory of karma exists not to bring fear to your heart but to ensure you do not lose hope and give up at the first obstacle that hits your path.
— Pooja Ruprell
I don't know why we take our worst moods so much more seriously than our best, crediting depression with more clarity than euphoria. We dismiss peak moments and passionate love affairs as an ephemeral chemical buzz, just endorphins or hormones, but accept those 3 a.m. bouts of despair as unsentimental insights into the truth about our lives.
— Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing
Be open to surrendering all preconceived notions, well-thought-out plans and annual to-do lists.
— Pooja Ruprell
We violate the innocence of things in the name of rationality so we can wander about, uninterrupted, in our search for passion and sentiment.
— Marlena de Blasi, A Thousand Days in Venice
For those who were born lovers, falling in love is neither an option nor a decision. it is a matter of existence.
— Sameh Elsayed
Success is not about getting it right the first time but about not giving up even if it takes a lifetime of effort.
— Pooja Ruprell
Success is for those who are persistent in the face of reality. The harsher the truth, the stronger they hold on to their dreams.
— Pooja Ruprell
Prayer elevates and transforms you. Nourish your soul using this powerful communication tool every day, and you will never be the same again.
— Pooja Ruprell
Life is beautiful. Like a beautiful blue wave, it ebbs and flows, sometimes gushing forth and sometimes receding quietly.
— Pooja Ruprell
Live gratefully. Express it constantly. Expect abundance.
— Pooja Ruprell
Master the attitude of gratitude and the pathway to abundance will open for you.
— Pooja Ruprell
When you pray to God asking for something, make sure you are asking for the things that are driven by love and passion rather than the ones that are pushed by hate and anger.
— Sameh Elsayed
Gratitude heals, cleanses and purifies.
— Pooja Ruprell
You are enough exactly as you are, whether you believe it or not.
— Pooja Ruprell
Pass on it if you’re not passionate
—  for convictions create clear choices.
Don't be discouraged if people don't see your vision, your harvest. All they see from their perspective is that you're watering a whole lot of dirt. They don't SEE what seeds you've been planting with blood, sweat, tears and lack of sleep. Make sure you don't abandon or neglect it because "they" don't see it. You have to KNOW and believe for yourself. They don't see the roots and what's budding under the dirt. But it's okay, because it's NOT meant for them to see it. While you wait, MASTER it. You continue to do YOUR work and have unwavering faith! Remember why you started planting in the first place. Your harvest WILL come!
— Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried:  A Memoir
The fire, baby. It'll burn us both. There's no place in this world for our kind of fire. My warrior woman. My valkyrie. You'll always be mine. Always. And never.
— Frank Miller, Sin City, Vol. 3: The Big Fat Kill
I want to be with you, Demetria. Go on dates, have sex and pointless arguments, figure out why you like to eat rabbit food, be the person you call first when you’ve had a bad day, come over and hold your hair when you’re sick. How much clearer can I make this?
— Genevieve Dewey, The Good Life
I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.
— Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
Sturm und Drang?”“Ah…I see that I’ll have to introduce you to the finer points of German literature. It means passionate turmoil—literally translated, ‘storm and stress.’ 
— Lisa Kleypas, Again the Magic
Beautiful feelings soar freely, while true care roots deeply. Real love can only bedefined by them both.
— Soar, Yours, poetically: Special Deluxe Edition of Selected Poems and Quotes
You are my favorite book. I immerse myself in your story and fall in love with each page. I will never be able to truly express to you how much I admire and cherish who you are. Nor will I be able to articulate the level of honor I feel to find myself included amongst the pages being written with each passing day. I love you. Thank you.
— Steve Maraboli
Love is a gift. Passion is a curse
— Alyson Noel, Dark Flame
Your intelligence enhances your ability to think and recollect, dream and set realistic goals. Your stamina is built on your passion for progress and willingness to excel... When you have a great stamina, you can make great impact even with a low intelligent quotient!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
I can't resist that's why I exist to take you there kissed
— R.M. Romarney, Contemporary Passion: I Nearly Loved Her Perfectly
When her gaze landed upon his lips, he scooted closer and brushed his mouth over hers. Fire ignited low in his belly and desire coursed through his veins. No doubt, his John Thomas was doing all the thinking; he knew he should listen to the head between his shoulders, the one telling him this was a mistake, but the one between his legs was more insistent.
— D.A. Rhine, Vampires of the Chesapeake: Rees Morgan
If you want the light, like you say you do, then why do you keep it strangled in thedark? If you preach love, like you strive to, why do you run away from practising?My love,the universe you fumble for doesn’t exist, if you don’t start from within. Before you,all that I can be is eyes and heart. And all that I can do is to remain by your side,for I can’t love you any less than the more I do now.
— Soar, Yours, poetically: Special Deluxe Edition of Selected Poems and Quotes
At times, love is silent because of too much hurt or too much care. At all times,love is the strongest voice you can always rely on.
— Soar, Yours, poetically: Special Deluxe Edition of Selected Poems and Quotes
Find your ‘why’. Give your life meaning.
— Pooja Ruprell
Wouldn’t you like to believe you’re the center of someone’s universe? To feel so special that the rest of the world didn’t matter and it could all wait? What would you be willing to pay for that - any time you needed to feel that way?
— D.A. Rhine, Vampires of the Chesapeake: Kian MacTiernan
Give life no quarter…pursue it with passion and purpose
— Thomas Narofsky, You are Unstoppable Participant's Guide: Unleash Your Inspired Life
When you imagine and clearly articulate your goals in writing, you access the creative energy of your right brain. Imagination and creativity allow you to find solutions to problems that were not previously available to you and give your left brain an opportunity to be receptive to new ideas.
— Julie Connor, Dreams to Action Trailblazer's Guide
Although steady and slow are the trail to love, there is no path to see through without the engine of passionate and true. (Soar)
— Soar
The earth is a planet that contains living things
—  I am a planet that contains living dreams! The earth revolves around the sun
Why do you wake up in the morning?
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
Where love is absent, violence is a glaring possibility. Introduce love into any situation and violence gradually evaporates.
— Pooja Ruprell
Join hands with other protagonists of love and peace and become a love commander.
— Pooja Ruprell
When you start living under the shadow of somebody, you lose your own personality and your own passions.
— Balroop Singh
The canvas of your life can reflect infinite beauty depending on the colors you opt to splash on it.
— Pooja Ruprell
You matter. Your heart matters.
— Pooja Ruprell
Whatever you do, listen for your inner voice. Do not ignore it.
— Pooja Ruprell
The key to finding your mission lies in listening to your heart and dancing to its beat.
— Pooja Ruprell
Somewhere there is a drummer calling to you too, and playing your special beat.
— Pooja Ruprell
You have been crafted with utmost care and creativity by your Creator. There is none other like you in the world.
— Pooja Ruprell
Fear, anxiety, arousal, and pain; all are emotions and sensations. They are neither right, nor are they wrong; good nor bad. They are simply passions, a most important part of life. Feel them, fully experience them, surrender to them, and learn to accept them. As a submissive, you must let go. André Chevalier
— Nikki Sex, Fate
When you settle for anything short of the best life God wants to offer you, then you have been tempted to remain safe and the accountability for not changing your life becomes your prison of regret.
— Shannon L. Alder
Let us be greedy together; let us hoard. Let us hit each other with birch branches and lock each other in dungeons; let us drink each other's blood in the night and betray each other in the sun. Let us lie and lust and take hundreds of lovers; let us dance until snow melts between us. Let us steal and eat until we grow fat and roll in the pleasures of life, clutching each other for purchase.
— Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
Never chase a person, because if they want to be in your life, they will. It amazes me how people go out their way for someone who does nothing for them, doesn't encourage or support their efforts. Stop seeking attention from people who don't give you the time of day. Value your time, comfort your spirit, have peace of mind. There are people who love you and care about you.Give your smiles to them, Reciprocate!
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Outside of my professional life, I have known many couples over the years who had passion and electricity between them and who treated each other well. But unfortunately there is wide acceptance in our society of the unhealthy notion that passion and aggression are interwoven and that cruel verbal exchanges and bomblike explosions are the price you pay for a relationship that is exciting, deep, and sexy. Popular romantic movies and soap operas sometimes reinforce this image.
— Lundy Bancroft, Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
Love is an admiration that comes with patience. Lust is an admiration that comes with impatience. In all, admiration is common but patience is not!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.
— Charlotte Eriksson
The season was waning fastOur nights were growing cold at lastI took her to bed with silk and song,'Lay still, my love, I won’t be long...I must prepare my body for passion.''O, your body you give, but all else you ration.''It is because of these dreams of a sylvan scene...A bleeding nymph to leave me serene...I have dreams of a trembling wench.''You have dreams,' she said, 'that cannot be quenched.''Our passion,' said I, 'should never be feared...As our longing for love can never be cured...Our want is our way and our way is our will...We have the love, my love, that no one can kill.''If night is your love, then in dreams you’ll fulfill...This love, our love, that no one can kill.'Yet want is my way, and my way is my will,Thus I killed my love with a sleeping pill.
— Roman Payne
but in the cityin which I love you,no one comes, no onemeets me in the brick clefts;in the wedged dark,no finger touches me secretly, no mouthtastes my flawless salt,no one wakens the honey in the cells, finds the hummingin the ribs, the rich business in the recesses;hulls clogged, I continue laden
— Li-Young Lee, The City in Which I Love You
Passion is like the lightening, it is beautiful and it links the earth to heaven, but it blinds.
— H. Rider Haggard, Allan Quatermain
leaving is not enough; you muststay gone. train your heart like a dog. change the lockseven on the house he’s nevervisited. you lucky, lucky girl. you have an apartment just your size. a bathtubfull of tea. a heart the size of Arizona, but not nearlyso arid. don’t wish away your cracked past, your crooked toes, your problemsare papier mache puppetsyou made or bought because the vendorat the market was so compelling you justhad to have them. you had to have him.and you did. and now you pull down the bridge between your houses,you make him call before he visits, you take a loverfor granted, you take a lover who looks at youlike maybe you are magic. makethe first bottle you consumein this place a relic. place it on whatever altar you fashionwith a knife and five cranberries.don’t lose too much weight.stupid girls are always trying to disappear as revenge. and you are not stupid. you loved a manwith more hands than a parade of beggars, and here you stand. heartlike a four-poster bed. heart like a canvas. heart leaking something so strong they can smell it in the street.
— Marty McConnell
Greatness is finding your natural talent, fueling it with passion, planting it in well-nourished soil, and toiling in the garden until it breaks through the earth and reaches for the stars.
— Janet Autherine, Growing into Greatness with God: 7 Paths to Greatness for our Sons and Daughters
Perfection, in the form of a flawless stream of words delivered with cool composure, is never as persuasive as realness. An impassioned but imperfect speech, which shows you care too much to hide flaws, is far more compelling.
— Charlotte Beers, I'd Rather Be in Charge: A Legendary Business Leader's Roadmap for Achieving Pride, Power, and Joy at Work
Good self-esteem comes from positive self-imaging. Positive self-image make you to resist wrong definitions others give about you, guiding you to live life with enthusiasm and will!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Right then, in a nutshell: this one hasn't a single bone of obedient-little-wife material in her heavenly body.''Hasn't she? Then what kind of bone does your expertise detect?'Fermin came closer, adopting a confidential tone. 'The passionate kind,' he said, raising his eyebrows with an air of mystery. 'And you can be sure I mean that as a compliment.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
Don’t let anyone sell you on the idea that anything (apart from the Lord Himself) is more important than your marriage. God means for your life and your marriage to be filled with passion and purpose.
— Elizabeth George
A heart given freely is the most vulnerable and selfless thing one can offer another human being. It can be as fragile and needy as a newly born infant, or as solid and self-supporting as a granite pillar, yet it is the hands of the recipient that determines its ultimate fate.
— Mark W. Boyer
What would you do if you were courageous?
— Julie Connor, Dreams to Action Trailblazer's Guide
Love blinds me so deep and dark, I see the world full of innocence, thoughts filled with affection, time brimming with hope and future flowing with my dreams.
— Harshada Pathare
At forty-one, he was still the quintessential bad boy—charming, at ease in his skin, and great-looking, with deep blue eyes, slicked-back brown hair, and the kind of full, sensuous mouth that bad boys seemed to have an unfair market on.
— Kate White, Eyes on You
Great men don't strive for greatness, theysimply do great works.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
When you dream, do not worry about how you must orchestrate events to ensure your success. Focus instead on why your dream is important to you. When you define your dream with razor-sharp clarity and articulate why you want to pursue it, answers about how to do it will begin to become clear.
— Julie Connor, Dreams to Action Trailblazer's Guide
Obituaries are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives. I defy you to find a single obituary that begins, "Jane Doe won the Nobel Prize in large part because she was admitted to a prestigious, highly selective preschool. After that, everything just kind of fell into place." Instead, you will read about dead ends, lucky coincidences, quirky habits, excessive self-confidence (often interspersed with bursts of excessive self-doubt), and a lot of passion for something.
— Charles Wheelan, 10 1/2 Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said
Resolving to influence and persuade others will require a degree of personal passion and a depth of caring that you are willing to express and act on. I can tell you this: it will make you feel very vulnerable. The only antidote is to believe you are after a worthwhile change and that you are likely to be the right one to lead this particular charge.
— Charlotte Beers, I'd Rather Be in Charge: A Legendary Business Leader's Roadmap for Achieving Pride, Power, and Joy at Work
Preparation is essential to achieving your goals in life. You don't want to miss a great opportunity because you were not prepared. Determination and motivation will put you on the right track. You've got the passion, that driving desire to be successful. But, you must take certain steps to put you in a position to be readily available for the reward.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana
If you don't make a conscious effort to visualize, who you are and what you want to become in life, then you empower other people and circumstances to shape your journey by default. Your silence makes you reactive vs. proactive. God will bring people in your life that can take you on many different journeys that will bring about different outcomes to your life mission. However, if you are not proactive and define your dreams you will never know where “you” need to be and who needs to be with you to fulfill what God is asking you to do. Your life is your own. You must define your dreams, not live someone else’s vision of a good life. What is it that God is asking you to do with the talents and hobbies you enjoy? What were you blessed with a desire for? A good life is one spent in the service of helping others. Find a life partner that will help you reach God’s highest potential—service to humanity, service to his Kingdom, service to building others up. Also, begin any choice with the end in mind. This means to begin each day with a clear vision of your desired direction. It is not enough to live a passive life of religious devotion. God asked you to do more than worship. He has called you to serve, not to be a servant to other people’s dreams. You and only you know where your heart must travel. God brings you storms in life to wake you up. Don’t see it as his disappointment, but as his parental love for you. Life was not meant to stay the same. If someone truly loves you they will never take you away from God’s plan, they will only magnify it.
— Shannon L. Alder
Fear is a wet blanket that smothers the fiery passion God deposited in your heart when he formed you. Fear freezes us into inaction. Frozen ideas, frozen souls, frozen bodies can't move, can't dream, can't risk, can't love, and can't live. Fear chains us.
— Stasi Eldredge, Becoming Myself: Embracing God's Dream of You
The whole of my life I have relied on my beauty first, brains second. It was expected, even requested. But You saw right through me from the start. You are the only man I've ever known who has looked beyond my face and wanted to know me for me. And I find myself wanting you to know the whole me.
— Kristen Callihan, Firelight
It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.
— Sophie Scholl
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
— Denis Diderot
She will not die today. I won't let her.
— Erin Hunter, The First Battle
When we are passionate about God, we can trust our passions.
— Erwin Raphael McManus, Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment
Because he is good and kind,” she explained softly, then went on. “Because he treats me like a princess. Because he makes me laugh. Because he makes me happy. Because he took the trouble to read to me when I could not read to myself. Because he fed me and gave me wine when I could not eat or drink at balls. Because when he kisses me my toes curl, and when he makes love to me I cannot contain my passion.
— Lynsay Sands, Love Is Blind
Every time his lips meet mine, my whole body begins a slow tingle that starts from within in my chest, and spreads like a wildfire.
— Alex Rosa, Emotionally Compromised
Beside her I felt grey, like she had all the colours I'd ever need.
— Daniela Sacerdoti, Take Me Home
But you will trust me again, Annabelle. You will want me again, and we will be together. I will behave. You'll see. - Zacharel
— Gena Showalter, Wicked Nights
You know, it's never wise to tempt the devil"His gaze lowered to her hand, still locked in his grip, her finger glistening with pear juice.His rich voice lowered to raw huskiness "had I not this mask, I should be of a mind to suck that juice right off your fingers
— Kristen Callihan, Firelight
The thing you are passionate about is not random
—  it stems from an inner yearning. Don’t ignore it or allow others to talk you out of it. Go get it!
There were lies, and there were lies. Was a secret a lie? If one wanted to protect another?
— Kristen Callihan, Firelight
Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent.
— Diego Rivera, My Art, My Life
Let today be the day you embrace your beautiful spirit and shine light for those living in the dark. Light their path so the road traveled will be seen more clearly. You never know how much a simple act of kindness is appreciated if you never try. Be that candle for someone today and shine bright.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
He couldn't remember the last time human hands had willingly touched him. Not true. Miranda had. She had touched him as if he were just a man.  He had lived on those moments ever since, pulled them to the fore when loneliness threatened to suck him down and drown him
— Kristen Callihan, Firelight
The great problems we see in the world today will not be solved by people functioning at half capacity cranking out work they don't care about in order to buy more things that will eventually rust and rot.
— Todd Henry, Die Empty: Unleash Your Best Work Every Day
Was it a moment of indecision or was it a moment of redemption. Redemption long overdue and long unacknowledged? They didn’t know. He suddenly went at her mouth and she claimed it as if it was never supposed to be elsewhere. It was stormy. It was fierce. His manhood shafted through his loose night pajamas challenging her even beyond the thickness of her bath robe, which was cast aside in one unsparing sweep of his hand, revealing the quavering ripeness of her fulsome breasts. After a moment of awe, he went at them with unquenched ferocity.First he devoured her there itself, against the wall, on the carpet. Within moments their frenzied hands tore away each other’s underpants with unapologetic fury and then in one smooth motion of a dancer’s lucidity, he lifted her and like a great performer of an opera, placed her on the bed. The inviting altar of desire and passion and longing. Now as they claimed each other, there was unhurried fluidity in their motion. Tears of pain and love in their eyes. Ecstasy of carnal compatibility in their fusion. Symphony of sensuality in their strokes and when he finally exploded inside her, she had gone aflame with matching uncontrollability. It was a heavenly union which in one go had robbed them of their beings, their earth, their universe, their past, their present, their future. In one instant, they had undone what was done and had done what was ‘not done’.
— Vinod Pande
How can I use what most excites, angers, or upsets me to achieve what I most want to be, do, or experience?
— Julie Connor, Dreams to Action Trailblazer's Guide
Success has no other shortcuts apart from the ones that tell you; control thoughts, delete negativity, alternate actions and shift attitudes to become positive! Click on passion, it opens a new window for you to sign in on time!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
If I could, I would take you with me," he said, his voice barely more than a whisper.She tried to pull away from him. "You would not. You would grow tired of me in a few weeks."He shook his head, pulling her tight against him. "No...I could never grow tired of you.""How can you be so sure?" she asked.He brushed tendrils of hair from her face. "I have craved to know you for years...even just to hear you speak my name...a single touch of your hand on mine..."He kissed her softly, his lips tasting hers. "I want you to be mine...I want you always."- 'unknown script' 2012
— Faye Hall
Live in the present moment, you can't go back to yesterday, you can't leap into tomorrow, Today is your second, minute, hour! Embrace It!
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Material things may satisfy your temporal desires, but none can be taken with you when you're gone. Build your hopes on things eternal !
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana
How can I use what most excites me to achieve what I most want to be, do, or experience?
— Julie Connor, Dreams to Action Trailblazer's Guide
The reason can make as much damage as passion.
— Alberto Ferreras, B as in Beauty
Objectives are only words written on paper without passion and desire
— W. T. Albright
Every time his lips meet mine, my whole body begins a slow tingle that starts from within my chest, and spreads like a wildfire.
— Alex Rosa, Emotionally Compromised
Sadly, there are many forces more powerful and devestating than love... Among them for example, the anger and jealousy of a spurned husband or lover. Fire begets passions, but it also burns.
— Hub, Okko: The Cycle of Fire
I loved him beyond madness being one soul one vein one body , which he never deserved
— Seema Gupta
Not long ago, I learned that if I let other people tell me how God was supposed to work in my life I would be dead. If I would have given into someone else’s version of God then I would have done nothing to improve my situation. The notion that “if it was meant to be, it will be”, is a pacifying, yet harmful quote, that many spiritualists use to soften the blow of anger. God is not passive. He is relentless, and he will build you through fire. He will put in your heart a need for answers. The intensity of what bothers your soul is often his voice trying to take you from the limited vision of mankind to the full view of the best life he would like to offer you. He is above any pastor, any bishop, any prophet, any church, any cleverly crafted sermon or multi-meaning verse. He is the master of his craft and the author of your forever. Inner peace is only found through action. Fear may darken the trail, but the light of peace stands at the end of such a journey ----waiting with truth.
— Shannon L. Alder
Love is where unseen and unsaid things merge with each otherwhere silence is thirsty of happenings
— Seema Gupta
My Love tears me between the addiction of patience and urge of infinite desire
— Seema Gupta
What is a life lived without passion? he asked himself. And what is passion, but a yearning of the soul for recognition and self-expression? The beauty within seeks beauty without.
— Dermot Davis, Stormy Weather
Love is your addiction to an eternal longing for someone...A thirst which one cannot relinquish
— Seema Gupta
Love is breathing each other with all madness
— Seema Gupta
I was in love when I felt your soul speaks in my Body 
— Seema Gupta
I would prefer to live with bleeding heart where desire see darkness of uncertainty because I need to know the existence of love
— Seema Gupta
For love I have invested my life with no return 
— Seema Gupta
For your love I have uprooted all my desires, I am no more demanding...
— Seema Gupta
To perform you need practice, to practice you need passion.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
All I know is that right now I wanna rip your clothes off right here in the middle of this hall and throw you in one of these classrooms and kiss every square inch of your body, while a bunch of people who drive minivans listen wishing they were us.
— L.J. Smith
Sex could be a gift of God, but when it becomes an obsession, it plunders all intelligence and people are driven to abominable acts to satisfy their lust. When passion is frustrated, people lose all good sense.
— Radhanath Swami, The Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami
Love is floating somewhere in the beautiful horizon with an equal wave length with same frequency of intense feelings
— Seema Gupta
Hate was the other side of love, wasn’t it? That’s what passion was like with her—to the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. We traveled to heaven and hell together. Earth wasn’t in the picture, and that was a problem.
— Jess C. Scott, Soulmates
Love has turned to be a sad tragedy of my life even we both are alive
— Seema Gupta
For me love is when I don't limit you, I put you on the rainbows......beyond eternity of time and destiny 
— Seema Gupta
He could not fit in my imagination and I was not fit for his Real and the conflict between imagination and real sadly made us apart
— Seema Gupta
If You Love me..--Your love drove metowards the live volcanowhere i will be burnt and destroyedOn your fake promises I made castles on air Oh! ! ! I was throwingsome pearls in desertwhere oasis has value Pearls have no value just remember I am an oceanyou are only a boat for a boat to explore oceanlove need to be daring, desperate If You love mePlant a seed of truthmake me part of your missingJust If you Love me.........
— Seema Gupta
He left me millions of time, but I am holding him with every breath with same madness
— Seema Gupta
Desire For Thee"My desire to love theeis just like a tree, must have one rootbut several branches of fruitI want to make you feel as if you are horizon i steal you are as free as wind where my love flows in swingi see thee in glaze shadow around a graceful presence on passion groundthat is "THEE" you spark everywhereEverywhere am far and near.
— Seema Gupta
All I wanted was to share myself with him...in a love way, lust way, every kind of way.
— Jess C. Scott, Bedmates
Moments without you made me realize How Idle I am in my life
— Seema Gupta
Love is when Looking at a glance at youI found laughter in my eyes, Thoughts turns into jewels Where luster of your aura dwells
— Seema Gupta
She pressed her mouth to his throat, his shoulder, would have absorbed him into her skin if she'd known a way.
— Nora Roberts, Sea Swept
God does not suffer out of deficiency of being, like created beings. To this extent he is 'apathetic'. But he suffers from the love which is the superabundance and overflowing of his being. In so far he is 'pathetic'.
— Jürgen Moltmann, The Trinity and the Kingdom
The moments of nature's universal, triumphant silence had come, those minutes when the creative mind works harder, poetic thoughts seethe more ardently, the heart's passion blazes more brightly and its longing aches more painfully, the grain of criminal thought ripens in a cruel soul more imperturbably and powerfully.
— Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
Your passion is your internal compass that will guide you from where you are towards where you want to go.
— Julie Connor, Dreams to Action Trailblazer's Guide
We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
— Philip K. Dick, VALIS
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
— Albert Einstein
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
— Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
One person's craziness is another person's reality.
— Tim Burton
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
— Rachel Carson
To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.
— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
— John Lennon
Reality is frequently inaccurate.
— Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.
— John Keats
There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.
— Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.
— Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
— Mark Twain
You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
— Neil Gaiman
I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
— T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
— Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.
— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
The more real you get the more unreal the world gets. 
— John Lennon
Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges; then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands clear.
— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.
— Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life
Why can I never go back to bed? Who's is the voice ringing in my head? Where is the sense in these desperate dreams? Why should I wake when I'm half past dead?
— Emilie Autumn
That’s sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something…real.” Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms. “Real love, real friends, real body parts…
— Jess C. Scott, The Other Side of Life
Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. We make such messes in this life, both accidentally and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are.
— Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
— Jorge Luis Borges
The world of reality has its limits
—  the world of imagination is boundless.
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
— Simone Weil
Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
— John Gardner
The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you. In books the heroes can make as many mistakes as they like. It doesn't matter what they do, because everything works out in the end. They'll beat the bad guys and put things right and everything ends up cool.In real life, vacuum cleaners kill spiders. If you cross a busy road without looking, you get whacked by a car. If you fall from a tree, you break some bones. Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.  I just wanted to make that clear before I begun.
— Darren Shan, A Living Nightmare
What if reality is nothing but some disease?
— Chuck Palahniuk, Rant
There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.— Great Expectations (1998) directed by Alfonso Cuarón
— Mitch Glazer
Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?
— Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.
— Maya Angelou, Poems
I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: “Poor thing, she’s crazy!” (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else’s - my madness would not be an escape from “reality”.
— Frida Kahlo
Reality's what other people dream for you.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves
As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.
— Neil Gaiman, American Gods
...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
— Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
Sometimes I think people take reality for granted.
— Francesca Zappia, Made You Up
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore
— Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers
Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there.
— Adam Young
It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than they did before. But don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality.
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.
— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions
—  reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.
With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.
— Scott Westerfeld, Pretties
We used to do coke, till "Just Say No" put the stuff out of reach. Now it's crank. Meth. The monster. It's a bitch on the body, but damn do you fly.
— Ellen Hopkins, Crank