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You can’t be friends with someone you have feelings for. It’ll just be a constant reminder of what you can’t have. It’s like putting boiling water in an ice cold glass. It’s gonna bust and make a mess.
— Jaime Reed, Keep Me In Mind
If he didn't hate me so much and he wasn't an evil supernatural being, I'd be on him like black on Cookie's toast.That woman could not make toast.
— Darynda Jones, The Dirt on Ninth Grave
The words ‘I love you’ are worthless when you don’t know who the 'I' is in that statement.
— Jaime Reed, Keep Me In Mind
I’d have to prove to everyone, including Ellia, that I was more than some guy she used to know, that what we shared had and still mattered. She may have forgotten the promise we made on the beach, but I hadn’t, and it was up to me to backup those words with action. Memories and ghosts were for the dead. Living things moved, and I was never one to stand still." ~Liam
— Jaime Reed, Keep Me In Mind
The Ice Cream Cone CharmYou Will Never Work A Day Once You Discover A Passion That Makes Your Life Rich & Sweet
— Viola Shipman, The Charm Bracelet
Indulge your passion for science…but let your science be human, and such as may have a direct reference to action and society. Be a philosopher; but amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
She was my go-to person. I’d tell her everything. Now, all of those late-night phone calls, all the sleepovers at her house because I couldn’t deal with stuff at home, all the crying on her shoulder. It’s all gone. It’s like if she doesn’t know, then it didn’t happen, and if it didn’t happen then what exactly am I holding on to?” ~Stacey
— Jaime Reed, Keep Me In Mind
Woman cannot survive on droplets, she requires waves to regularly crash over her shores as the moon gives way to the sun...
— Virginia Alison
It was love. It was lust. It was just between us. The passion, the desire, the fire. The way we held on in so little time and his eyes when he saw me for the first time.
— Dominic Riccitello
One passion leads to another. It's passion that makes the wheels of life turn, passion for work, passion for pleasure, passion for passion.
— Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love
Who cares about fault? As my dad would say, ‘Blame is like your rear-end and reflection. Seeing either always leaves you looking back.’ I’m more worried about what’s in front of me. And right now . . . the view is all messed up.” ~ Ellia
— Jaime Reed, Keep Me In Mind
Give me passion -- and compassion -- any day.
— Jim Butcher, Princeps' Fury
Love thou thy dreamAll base love scorning,Love thou the windAnd here take warningThat dreams alone can truly be,For 'tis in dream I come to thee.Ezra Pound, The Songtrad. Ungaretti:Ama il tuo sogno Ama il tuo sognoOgni inferiore amore disprezzando,Il vento amaEd accorgiti quiChe i sogni solo possono veramente essere,Perciò in sogno a raggiungerti m’avvio.
— Ezra Pound
It’s like returning to a familiar room and noticing objects had been moved while you were gone—a chair here, a picture frame there. Items that were once brand new were suddenly broken in and worn from age. It was all very subtle, but enough to suspect paranormal activity or a cruel practical joke. When no one else saw what you saw, the freak factor really kicked in, because you were singled out and left questioning reality." ~Ellia
— Jaime Reed, Keep Me In Mind
He spoke as if the answer were a matter of indifference to him. But it was not so. For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it. Although he hated Margaret at times, when he thought of that gentle familiar attitude and all the attendant circumstances, he had a restless desire to renew her picture in his mind--a longing for the very atmosphere she breathed. He was in the Charybdis of passion, and must perforce circle and circle ever nearer round the fatal centre.
— Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
That our affections kill us not, nor dye.
— John Donne
Hope can be foolish or misguided, but there was no such thing as false hope. Hope was always true even when there was no evidence to support its claim.” - Liam
— Jaime Reed, Keep Me In Mind
I would love to become a poor writer as per my choice then a billionaire businessman as per them...
— shivangi lavaniya
Allow me to introduce myself. I am Enrico Manuel Alejandro Stephan Montebello, and you are trespassing on my land.
— Grace Willows, Into My Heart
Love is not for thrill-seekers, dreamers, or children with short attention spans. And you, son, fit into all three of those categories.
— Jaime Reed, Keep Me In Mind
I cannot quit your love without dying.
— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
The low-tone clarinet moans. The door upstairs opens again. Stella slips down the rickety stairs in her robe. Her eyes are glistening with tears and her hair loose about her throat and shoulders. They stare at each other. Then they come together with low, animal moans. He falls to his knees on the steps and presses his face to her belly, curving a little with maternity. Her eyes go blind with tenderness as she catches his head and raises him level with her. He snatches the screen door open and lifts her off her feet and bears her into the dark flat.
— Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
People who are driven by their values will overcome hurdles, difficulties, and obstacles in ways that people driven only by profit will never be able to
— Simon S. Tam
This love frightens me, it causes me fear and ecstasy and pain and a thousand other things I never knew I could feel.It terrifies me, leaves me wounded and open and vulnerable.But I want you to know it exists.And I want you to know that if there ever comes a day in your life when you want my love, then it is here.I will be here.Always.That is all I want you to know.
— Sherryl Jordan, Winter of Fire
Life is difficult for us all. We’re all driven by love, and the desire to be loved and happy. If you take the right attitude, you think positively, you fill yourself with gratitude, joy and passion – it could be hell on earth and you’d still be happy.
— K.A. Hill, The Winners' Guide
When you do or think or feel something, do it with passion. Let it come from the heart. Put your heart and soul in it. And when you do, you will feel a river flowing sweetly through you and especially through your entire life. Life has much more meaning that way. ﻿
— Angie karan
When God gives you a passion for a particular cause, there is a reason for it, and that reason is not to keep it to yourself. You are called to be a representative for those in need.
— Dillon Burroughs, Faith Acts: A Provocative Call to Live What You Believe
...but he tightened his grip so he could kiss my mangled middle finger. Yes, yes, I know. He put his mouth on a part of my body. I'm surprised I'm still conscious enough to talk about it.
— Linda Kage, Price of a Kiss
What are you creating?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You can start now and create a great future.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Even his own speeches bored him.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
This was what she couldn't get enough of, not if she lived forever: Harry on her skin, Harry's grateful kisses on her neck, Harry and Olive, teeming and sated, brimming over with each other, as if this house and this world had been built by God's hands for their love alone.
— Beatriz Williams, The Forgotten Room
Do what gives you joy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is wise to do what you love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The mental agony I have suffered, during the last two days, wrings from me the avowal to you of a passion which, as you well know, is not one of yesterday, nor one I have lightly formed. On Rose, sweet, gentle girl! my heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope in life, beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind. Mother, think better of this, and of me, and do not disregard the happiness of which you seem to think so little.
— Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
Your present interests are not a solid basis of a career decisions. So, stop following your passion and Do What Is Valuable.!
— Moutasem Algharati
Meet me there, where the sea meets the sky...
— Oksana Rus
I could go and buy one of the islands in theBahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom, but I am much more interested in trying to build andcreate a new company.
— Elon Musk
I love you in order to begin loving you,to start infinity againand never to stop loving you:that is why I do not love you yet.
— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
Maybe we don’t ever feel that sweetly untainted and wholly majestic kind of love that takes every longing captive because we are hopelessly entangled in the illogical fear that despite all of love’s grand goodness, it might not be good enough to keep us safe.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
His eyes spark as his gaze dips to my cleavage, and this gives me courage. I shift forward and slip my hands under his shirt, brushing my fingers against the muscles of his abdomen. Noah sharply inhales and, in seconds, his shirt is off and thrown into the corner of the tent.I love his naked chest, and I decide to play. Biting my bottom lip, hoping to contain the smile, I nudge Noah’s shoulder, indicating for him to lie down. He flashes his wicked grin and reclines back, except he snags his hand around my wrist and tugs me with him.I laugh as I come face-to-face with him. My body on top of his and when I wiggle, I close my eyes, liking the pleasure of intimate parts touching. My hips squirm and with the movement, Noah immediately kisses my lips while knotting his fingers in my hair.There’s no subtlety in our kiss. All of the passion, all of the longing, all of the emotion rush out of us like water hurtling toward a cliff. It’s fast and raw and out of control.
— Katie McGarry, Breaking the Rules
You. You are the last page of hundred pages I have written in my journal. Filling its pages with special kind of spoken words without a sound, and the I Love You that's been written and rewritten countless times. After all this time that I spent writing about you in my journals, can you still not understand? Only you can fill this quietness and emptiness, only you can take this grief away, isn't it obvious? Who else will save your soul and mine? God knows, it is you that will heal the holes and cracks of times.
— Mookhatchka Khalid
Her spirit is all spit and fire
— Sherryl Jordan, Winter of Fire
Passion. It's not a male body's, & it's not a female body's It's not the penetration or reception of sex organs, & it's not how powerful a body is or the amount of its sexual secretions. It's not how a person expresses their strengths or weaknesses to other people. Passion is a quality, a quality that is an energy resource that someone can tap into within themselves. The type of passion I've been searching for in people is similar to my own. It's not necessarily in the body of a woman.
— Qiu Miaojin, Last Words from Montmartre
Miguel came to my restless mind, as he always did when I slept. Old memories never left me alone.
— Kenya Wright, Bad for You 2
The only time you've been under me is when I've been inside of you and even then, you're never truly under me. I always remain under you.
— Kenya Wright, Bad for You 2
Passion is the driving element of purpose. When one is possessed with it, labor is not perceived as toil - it is revealed as love.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
God's given me a fierce passion for teaching girl's my age and younger, maybe even older, about purity, and the fact that it is not a physical thing but in fact that of the heart.
— Abigail Ford, Riches and Glory: A Christian Romance Story
Without her, I couldn't live.
— Kenya Wright, Bad for You 2
Passion is not such an emotion as a destiny.
— Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
Are you in love with him?’She kept her lips tightly closed as if holding something back.‘Are you in love with me?’She tried to answer but nothing came out. She lowered her eyes to the floor.
— Tan Redding, A Banquet Of Crumbs
In front of him stood the woman of his dreams, giving him one last chance to kiss her.Reason didn’t stand a chance.
— Tan Redding, A Banquet Of Crumbs
Talking to you is like talking to someone I’ve never met before. When did you become so competitive? When did you decide that you needed to win all of the time?’He stopped dead in the promenade and grabbed her hand, turning her to face him.He caught her by surprise. She leant her neck backwards slightly in defence.‘When I lost you.
— Tan Redding, A Banquet Of Crumbs
The pursuit of passion is a decisive purposeful living.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Falling in love, finding your passion, are attempts to locate, to picture, to represent what you unconsciously feel frustrated about, and by.
— Adam Phillips, Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life
Haters may hate, but we can't stop loving.
— Anamika Mishra
There's another part, an obstinate part, that wants more. That wants Dutch live and in the flesh. That wants her hand. Her mouth. Her hips under mine. It wants all of her. Every last ounce. Body and soul.
— Darynda Jones, Brighter Than the Sun
Find what you're good at. whatever it is, and become excellent at it. Excellence isn't magic - it's habit, the by product of doing something over and over and striving to be the best at it. Simply figure out what your passion is, and resolve to make excellence your habit.
— Lauren Rowe, The Club
Your dreams will define your destiny.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Explore your special skills.
— Laillah Gifty Akita
Whatever you do, put all your soul, your spirit and your strength into it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Writing is a sacred passion.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I am fully persuaded to pursue my passion.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To read Shakespeare is to feel encompassed -- the plays contain practically every word I know, practically every character type I have ever met, and practically every idea I have ever had.
— Kenji Yoshino, A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us About Justice
When you are passionate about something, it shows. There is no point doing something that does not make you feel happy just to earn money. If you hate what you are doing, you are then just wasting your life.
— Preeti Shenoy, It Happens for a Reason
Be the fire when they feel cold, you go out, they are without
— Goitsemang Mvula
You keep looking at me like that and we won't make it through dinner. I'll take you right there on that counter. No doubt you'd taste better.
— Kelly Moran, Exposure
We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.I was a strong lad and survived; but the poison was in the wound, and the wound remained ever open
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth.Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school.She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
if it doesn’t come bursting out of youin spite of everything,don’t do it.unless it comes unasked out of yourheart and your mind and your mouthand your gut,don’t do it.
— Charles Bukowski, Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way
Curiosity is often mistaken as Love,Since they both have the common elements of Interest and Passion
— Drishti Bablani
Because if I'm going to spend at least seventy-five percent of my waking hours doing something, I want that something to have meaning. I am tired of wasting my time. I am starting to realize that I want my life to matter in every way that it can.
— Julie Buxbaum, The Opposite of Love
Life is a journey of tenacity. Only the tough gets to the top through the storm. Take the steps one by one though the errand may be arduous. Never give up though you may grow weary. Think of the purpose though its attainment may be tough. Dare to get to the crown though you may meet the obstacles. You are never born to relax all day but to dare to do the undone. If only it is reasonable enough within the real reasons of your life, and if your soul and spirit convince you of getting it done, then, you have the real reasons to dare for the crown.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Yeah! "I love you" is subject to the law of diminishing returns; like one or two other critical weekly elements of a relationship, it loses a bit of thrilling value every time you get it out.'... That's what happens with "I love you", that same phrase that you once shouted Hollywood or Heathcliff-like in the lashing raining, now- now you are saying it dumbly at the end of every phone conversation, a follow-on from," I'll be back for dinner." Once it came out spontaneous rush, it forced itself out; now it's reflex.
— David Baddiel
Books are my passion," James told her, "I cannot imagine passing a day without reading.
— Sophie Barnes, The Earl's Complete Surrender
One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance.
— Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
One has to look for one's passion. It's not going to come up and smack you on the head.
— Charlotte Huang, Going Geek
God gives a new grace for every new quest.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
A spirit without an outlet for its passion, is as good as dead.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
Games are never over because you think them so! Which is why I like you. Are you doing what you want to do...or are you simply another piece of a darkened puzzle? Your own actions predetermined by powers higher than yourself?
— LaTorre Mays, Darkened Soul: Jonathan's Tale:
In this age of 'whatever,' Americans are becoming slaves to the new tyranny of nonchalance. " James Morris
— George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Curiosity – if not desire, if not plain kindness – might have led him to greater zeal.
— Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord
He did not think of love as an eternally vigilant, blazing flame, which with its powerful, flickering glow shown into all the peaceful folds of life and in some fantastic way made everything seem bigger and stronger than it was. For him, love was more like the calm, smoldering ember that gives off an even heat from its soft bed of ashes and in the muted twilight tenderly forgets what is distant and makes what is near seem twice as close and twice as intimate.
— Jens Peter Jacobsen, Niels Lyhne
Again, I've missed you by a minute
— Zdravko Čurdinjaković
...awkward passion is so often so very much more admirable than mere achievement.
— Brian  Doyle, The Plover
I felt condemned to obscurity and to celibacy. But when one is driven by passion, one can live on almost nothing, and I was driven by passion for writing. One does not starve in modern, Western societies, and one can do without such amenities as the telephone, a car, entertainment.
— Alain Robbe-Grillet
You must put all your heart into everything you do.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
All this while I kept thinking where did I go wrong, all this while he wasn't mine to lose.
— Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel
So black is my heart for it is buried in the fiery chasm of untameable passion. It beats in the dark recesses of unquenchable thirst for love and desire from which there is no return...
— Virginia Alison
...but the truth is that it is only in knowing who you are at your core and staying true to yourself that you can possibly see the difference between passion and real love.
— Jennifer Lopez
Authority could derive from passion, not pieces of paper.
— Daniel Mendelsohn
Who am I to decide if he is worth my love or not when I can't even...
— Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel
The sad reality is that there are many Christians who are “saved”, “heaven bound,” and “hell proofed” who do not care about the souls of the lost. What a beautiful contrast our Lord Jesus Christ is! His passion for souls brought Him from Heaven to earth, His Passion for souls motivated His compassionate activity. His passion for souls pressed Him to a rough cross where He surrendered His life to save the lost.
— John Willis Zumwalt
Without passion everything is lame in this life.”Baris Gencel
— Baris Gencel
The sacred soul who desire to work, must not be interrupted.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
More I tried hating him
— more I thought about him and I lived with it everyday and I lived with him everyday.
May you find endless enthusiasm to achieve your dreams in the coming year.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Every New Year brings new expectations, new enthusiasms and new experiences.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Sometimes it feels like you've set off a spectacular lightning show in my heart, and I wonder if other people can see the flashes through my skin.
— John Mark Green
Her veins flowed with liquid poetry. I stole the words from her mouth with my kisses.
— John Mark Green
Everyone needs someone who can show them what heaven looks like.
— John Mark Green
When she smiled at me, I felt unborn poems stirring within.
— John Mark Green
And if the stars should ever die, we'll make our own light, you and I.
— John Mark Green
I want to kiss you so thoroughly that you lose your ability to stand.
— John Mark Green
Sometimes it doesn't make sense- the short periods of time we get with the best moments and with people, or their outcomes from their choices.However, if we turn it over to the golden light that flies around us.The breathing wind of the evening promises that we will see the big picture in the hereafter with a new dawn tomorrow.Nothing is too small to be a mistake.
— Deejay Kapil
Be curious! Be crazy with passion! Astound yourself!
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
I love that you love me.
— Hafsa Shah
Where there is passion, there is possibility.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The greatest obsession is I believe in myself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
She'd just thrown gasoline on the fire. Now it was up to fandom to keep it burning.
— Danika Stone, All the Feels
We are writing the history of our time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
She turned his hand over, tracing letters into his palm. I…L.O.V.E…Y.O.U…
— Danika Stone, Intaglio: Dragons All The Way Down
We can do great things only by the divine grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Lincoln told a family friend that his father taught him to work, but never learned him to love it.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Be enthusiastic.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Mine is a quest, for a mouthful of skies.!
— Deejay Kapil
I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I love you without knowing how, nor when, nor from where,I love you directly without problems or pride:I love you this way because I know no other way to love,
— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
Erupting like fiery autumn leaves between silksas skin meets skinflames that lick everythingand consume all there is.
— Sreesha Divakaran, Wine, Fire, Satin, Dew
The line between passionate and crazy can be a thin one.
— Linda Sue Park, Trust No One
The thing is and I know this is going to sound strange- that I seem to love you sort of desperately.
— L.J. Smith, Daughters of Darkness
Live your greatest dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Persistence in the face of failure is of course important, but it is not the same thing as dedication or passion. Persistence is a discipline that you learn; devotion is a dedication you can't ignore.
— Stuart Firestein
It's easy for the body to be open to desiring different people because desire wells up & demands to be satisfied. It's easy to categorize corporeal desire as sexuality, but if it has no means of merging with spiritual desire, then a rupture will occur between sprit & flesh. For ultimately passion & sex aren't only expressed physically but through a true union between two spirits. When the spirit can truly love & find contentment, both the body & the other key aspects of life will fall naturally into place, working in unison, merging.
— Qiu Miaojin, Last Words from Montmartre
What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight toward a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?…If your deepest self is singing and coaxing you straight toward the bonfire, is it better to turn away? Stop your ears with wax? Ignore all the perverse glory your heart is screaming at you? Set yourself on the course that will lead you dutifully towards the norm, reasonable hours and regular medical check-ups, stable relationships and steady career advancement the New York Times and brunch on Sunday, all with the promise of being somehow a better person? Or…is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?
— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
Begin to pursue your dream.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
A man is always right to pursue the thing he loves.No matter even if it kills him?I think so. Yes. No matter what.
— Cormac McCarthy
Writing is a holy occupation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I'm more depressed about the realities of the mature bureaucracy and more excited about the ideal that we're fighting for. And the juxtaposition has obvious consequences. Rolf Mowatt-Larrsen
— Ron Suskind, The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
I am a woman who’s passionate about life. Perhaps too full of passion for the majority of the world to understand. I lust for adventure and stories; I feel everything. I’m a lover and a fighter. I fight for what I love and I love what I fight for. I yearn for what is more than life, and I live beyond that yearning.
— Hillary Wen
When you are clear on your calling, you command the universe to submit to your voice
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
I have hunger for your mouth, for your voice, for your hair
— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
I touched you and my life stopped
— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
Oh invade me with your scalding mouth,search me if you like, with your nocturnal eyes,but allow me to sail and sleep upon your name.
— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
Love, my territory of kisses and volcanoes.
— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
I love the piece of earth you are,because in all the planetary prairiesI do not have another star. You repeatthe multiplication of the universe.
— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
beyond the earth and the shadowthe brightness of our love will stay alive
— Pablo Neruda
I repeated: come with me, as if I were dying,and no one saw in my mouth the moon that was bleeding,no one saw the blood that was rising into the silence.Oh love, now let us forget the star with thorns!
— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
Of so much moon were your hips to me,of all the sun your deep mouth and its delight,of so much burning light like honey in the shade
— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
Make Your wish Your Dream and Your Dream Your Goal
—  Your goal should be your passion to turn your wish into a reality
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are as easy as an old shoe are generally of as lttle worth .
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
I paint the darkness and the silence, You see them as stars and poetry.
— Jenim Dibie, The Calligraphy of God
Find your passion, it makes all the difference.
— Alahdal A. Hussein
Heart language is logic set on fire.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
Without passion everything lame in this life.
— Baris Gencel
If you wanna live long, live your Passion.
— Atul Kumar Sharma
Live in such a way that when you die you leave God in your will for your children.
— Shannon L. Alder
Every beginner possesses a great potential to be an expert in his or her chosen field.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I am not concerned about results. The only thing I am concerned about is the process. How you tried to achieve something matters more than what you achieved.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
Aeneas comes to her court a suppliant, impoverished and momentarily timid. He is a good-looking man. If anything, his scars emphasize that. The aura of his divine failure wraps around him like a cloak. Dido feels the tender contempt of the strong for the unlucky, but this is mixed with something else, a hunger that worms through her bones and leaves them hollow, to be filled with fire.
— Kij Johnson
What chance does logic have against a glass of wine and a kiss?
— Marty Rubin
Three Ps that I can't sacrifice: Process, Purpose, and Principles.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
I would rather live a joyful simple life, doing what I love, than to be unhappy and rich.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
True art is a remedy of curiousity and it rise above all expectations.
— Unarine Ramaru
To all young people out there: This is the time you should be fearless but not jobless. Identify the right job, find what excited you the most, find what you are the most passionate about.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
I will live a joyful simple life, doing what I love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I refuse to believe in three things: cash, clock, and calendar. You should never be enslaved by these three.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
You must want it, to chase for it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The only thing that satisfies the soul is passionate life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I will rather be poor doing what I love, than to be rich hating what I do.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Let us live for passion,/ for the taking off of clothes,/tossing them over our shoulder.
— Susan Browne, Buddha's Dogs
Say yes. Open your eyes, see that it's me, and say yes.
— Kelly Moran, Exposure
Turn your fears into excitement.Your anxieties into enthusiasm. Your passion into energy.
— Sanober  Khan
New adventures enrich one’s life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
You ought to live life with great passion.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
You must dare greatly.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Freedom is choice to follow your own dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Begin to live, love, laugh, kiss, smile, hug…!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Use your special gifts to create work for yourself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Self-assurance is self-love!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Do not waste your life, in search for a job.Use your special gifts to create work for yourself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Doing what you love is a sacred life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Begin to pursue your dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Pursuit of passion, dream of dreamers!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You ought to dare great things.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Renee loved to do things. That was mysterious to me, since I was more comfortable talking about things and never doing them. She liked passion. She liked adventure. I cowered from passion and talked myself out of adventure.
— Rob Sheffield
Daring faith
—  daring life.Daring life
I live life with a daring curiosity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Dare to be you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You must begin writing your life book.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You have unlimited resources, begin your work!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Our stories must be written, shared and communicated.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Men and women find all sorts of ways to be together, all sorts of ways. Yours was high and dangerous. Most of us stay on the lower paths.
— Josephine Hart, Damage
You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work.
— Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
Passion makes most psychiatrists nervous
— Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
You hid in my ink and guided my hand. You stained the pages with your silence as God wrote the words, "Be still." Yet, my heart's blindness could only write in loud hues of red, "I love you.
— Shannon L. Alder
Open your eyes! And observe the miracles of everyday life. Absolute Amazing!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
A successful business requires one simple thing: PASSION.
— Teresa Collins, Live LIFE in All Caps: The Teresa Collins Story
The world needs great inspirers, to ignite the light in every soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
But if we do not try, the dream will remain a dream.
— Anamika Mishra, VoiceMates - A Novel
Writing is my passion and burns in me like a fire. I'm always writing and honing my skills to feed the flames.
— Gabriela M. Sanchez
I have always been a fire, and everyone I loved walked away as ashes, until I met a phoenix who was born to love flames.
— Jenim Dibie, The Calligraphy of God
Fuel your life with passion.
— Teresa Collins, Live LIFE in All Caps: The Teresa Collins Story
You just became the most interesting person at this party. I don't think anyone here has worked an honest day in their lives.
— Minority Report (TV show)
Work with enthusiasm.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I wish to continue reading.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I have found a higher calling; inspirational-writing!I can’t imagine myself doing any other work, when I ought to write and transmit, awe-inspiring-words, to the souls longing for it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Curiosity is a daring faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I have decided on my destiny
—  accepted by calling as writing for God.
A woman in love respects and raises up her man. She is his constant source of support. She matches his heart and passions with her own. She sees the very best in him, even when he does not. She is his foundation; what he returns home to.
— Elizabeth Bourgeret
I have only dwelt in my thoughts.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Together, we can serve humanity with our unique passions, gifts and abilities.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The more we serve, the more strength, we receive to keep the good deeds.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Pursue your dream with passionate commitment to the divine purpose.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Divine mission.Divine strength.Divine accomplishment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Pursuit of excellence is the desire for divine fulfilment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Love your work and rejoice in all your accomplishments.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You will get what you wish for.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You must find your sacred path and travel on
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
It feels great to do what you love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
May you find the courage to confidently pursue your dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
As far as I can go, I will reach for it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I know what I want. I will chase to it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I live life with great passion.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You will surely succeed in life with great passion and desire for self-study.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I know very little about darkness, Mr Bowden, except that we cannot stop its coming.
— Anna Freeman, The Fair Fight
Explore your own innermost thoughts to create content that will evoke deeply relatable emotions and passion in others.
— Ken Poirot, Go Viral!: The Social Media Secret to Get Your Name Posted and Shared All Over the World!
Life is easy for some, hard for others. Some succeed with minimal effort, others have to put in a lot of efforts and some have it served in a dish. Whichever your case is, make the best of it. Enjoy the journey.You can't control the side of life you fall into but you can rise beyond any limitation it places on you. Those who have it easy are made of plastic, you are made of steel. Do what you must today.
— Emi Iyalla
Relaxation is good, holidays are necessary, but there is nothing as rewarding and healthy as doing what you love and loving what you do. Our honest toil should inspire and satisfy us.
— Ogwo David Emenike
We must pursue knowledge and wisdom above all other things.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I could not tell anymore how much of the screaming came from my own mouth. I was borne up on the swell of it, I was the sound. We were all howling together, the poor and the quality, the boxing girl and the beast inside my breast. If she was a madwoman, then we were all of us with her, and I had never felt such savage elation, nor known that it existed.
— Anna Freeman, The Fair Fight
In today's globalized world nothing is sure. Routines are falling
—  stereotypes are breaking. Life has never been as piquant as it is now. So go out of your way
We are capable of performing the task.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Every path that my foot has treaded was divinely ordered.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I do not mind sleepless night to be involved in reading.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Encouragement fuels great strength and great achievement.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
You are born with a crown.Create your own kingdom!
— Cass van Krah
You must pursue your dreams with all your might.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I am giving my all in all to the sacred moments.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Written words are divine footprints on earth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Whether you sweep the toilet of a school or you make cloths. Whether you take pictures of dancers or you are a full-time house wife.Whether you are a village jester or the president of a company, never trivialize what you do. Your work, no matter how small you think it is can make a difference in someone's life. It all begins with you. It's not what you do, it's how you do it.I have seen a traffic police bring minutes of joy and happiness to people's lives in a way that Presidents of nations cannot. Anytime you trivialize what gives you an income, you sell yourself cheap and lose your dignity. Do your work with all excitement, joy and positivity. Learn and grow from it. And if you haven't found a job to do, look for one with the same zeal as you would do the actual work. Good morning and may God bless our efforts. Emi Iyalla
— Emi Iyalla
You have a great passion for great works.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
What is your calling? Find it and ardently live it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
What drives your passion?
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
You can achieve the set-goals with passion, persistent with perseverance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You must fall in love with your job, over and over again, to own it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Find your passion and live it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Life is not a competition.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Find your passion and fulfill it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Passion is destructive. It destroyed Antony and Cleopatra, Tristan and Isolde, Parnell and Kitty O'Shea. And if it doesn't destroy it dies. It may be then that one is faced with the desolation of knowing that one has wasted the years of one's life, that one's brought disgrace upon oneself, endured the frightful pang of jealousy, swallowed every bitter mortification, that one's expended all one's tenderness, poured out all the riches of one's soul on a poor drab, a fool, a peg on which on hung one's dreams, who wasn't worth a stick of chewing gum.
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge
My biggest fear is forgetting why I fell in love with writing. My biggest dream is never allowing that to happen.
— Rudy Francisco
Nobody works harder at learning than a curious kid.
— Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
I am made only for passion; it is the temperature of love that I cannot endure. I am afraid, and I think it is death- everything but passion seems like death to me. Only in fever do I feel life.
— Anaïs Nin
My priority is not about grades. I yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I take small, shallow breaths, even though my lungs are begging for more air. I feel the heat of Ten’s controlled breaths against my face. As we stand there, it feels as if an electric charge is growing between us, so powerful that it would shock us if we moved even a millimeter closer together. And yet I feel like I want to.
— Jenny Lynne, Above the Sky
They clutch and cling and howl when I leave them, but how badly they love.
— Anaïs Nin, Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin
Where the world saw 'nothing'
—  And called it 'empty'..I saw an Ocean of Air
There is no greater success than turning your true passion into a dream, and seeing its reality come to manifestation.
Don’t whittle your potential, just because others don’t believe in you. The only worthy question is “Do You Believe in You?
— Manprit Kaur
Find your mission and live it with all your might.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Rise and shine! The Lord’s anointing is upon you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
[Speaking about writing her first novel] You have to be passionate enough about it and I was.
— Kristyn Van Cleave
Identify your divine gift and use it to serve humanity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Without empathy and love there is no morality, no altruism, no compassion for others. The scientific mindset, like the artistic and spiritual ones, must be passionate and not easily dissuaded from its path. Although, the empirical mindset must be ever more vigilant than the artist because there is much more at stake than just individual freedom, there is the very basis for truthful inquiry.
— Leviak B. Kelly, Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
Find your passion and live your best life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Make the most of your sacred life on earth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Early morning exercise will keep you active for the entire day.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
There's no such thing as having something to fall back on in life, there's passion, talent, skills, compassion and purpose. Choice is a prerequisite
— Goitsemang Sandra Mvula
I love the sacred moment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Plans become Platitudes, if you don't have Passion and Persistence to Execute them!
— Manprit Kaur
With great passion, observe every details of the sacred journey.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Work with great zeal.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Passions cannot take wings in adversity, and adversities remain prevalent because of dormant passions.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
And worse, far worse – he wasn't just kissing me. He was making me like it! And he was somehow, by some nefarious chauvinistic manly trick managing to make me kiss him back!
— Robert Thier, Storm and Silence
His lips reached mine and enveloped them, soft as velvet and yet unyielding.
— Robert Thier, Storm and Silence
His silent, stony face was only inches away now. He was so near, so terribly near – and then he moved to close the last bit of distance.
— Robert Thier, Storm and Silence
Before she could stop her hands, they reached for him, as though they existed for no other reason than to touch him. Her fingers brushed across his jaw with a feather's caress before pulling away, and he closed his eyes on a soft inhale. Like the poison toying with its remedy, Shahrzad's hands ignored her and took control, a mere taste of his skin not nearly enough. Never enough.
— Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn
Love and peace are not just words, they are a way of life. And in an honest living, love will always conquer.
— Ahmad Ardalan
Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
She was drowning in sandalwood and sunlight. Time ceased to be more than a notion. Her lips were hers one moment. And then they were his. The taste of him on her tongue was like sun-warmed honey. Like cool water sliding down her parched throat. Like the promise of all her tomorrows in a single sigh. When she wound her fingers in his hair to draw her body against his, he stilled for breath, and she knew, as he knew, that they were lost. Lost forever. In this kiss. This kiss that would change everything.
— Renee Ahdieh
I will pursue the dream, no matter how long it takes to fulfil it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
We do not have to go in search of passion. Instead we need to search for God, who plants the seed of passion in our hearts.
— Pam Farrel, Woman of Influence: Ten Traits of Those Who Want to Make a Difference
Passion is not what gives you bliss or makes you happy 24/7, but what you're willing to suffer for, what you genuinely believe to be worth the sacrifice.
— Justine Musk
The universe is a life giving force that is part of us. It flows in harmony through us guiding our every step. It maintain the harmony and flow of life. It gives us the passion and the knowledge we need to live and be inspired by. Yet in return, it is inspired by the human spirit
— Sameh Elsayed
Education, possessions, or people cannot replace passion, but they are given meaning by your passion in life.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
Passion is the mother of every greatness.
Let your passion serve as your energy source to keep you going. I can attest that you will be happier, healthier, and more successful at it.
— Anna Agoncillo, Psychology Of Love, Money, & Life
When your emotion finds a true expression in other person, he's your soul mate. Never leave him!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
I write to express and I shop to destress
— Anamika Mishra
Be informed here and now that incessant prayers does  not finger God to open the Windows of heaven. What God wants to see Is your passion towards success and your giving drive...nothing else!
— Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign
The time is now. What you have to do, do it now.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Let your passion serve as your energy source to keep you going.
— Anna Agoncillo
Be daring, be passionate and persistently pursue your dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
There’s a pressure at all hours of the day only a poem can assuage.
— Kristen Henderson, Drum Machine
The impulse to touch her and all the life in her was something I had to check regularly.
— Lily King, Euphoria
When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus. Then your focus directs you: you go back to that – again and again.Choose a new rudder: Look forward now – and focus on your passion with joyful anticipation.Then your passion will fill the empty space of your loss...and where you land up will amaze you!
— The Truth
When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus. Then your focus directs you: you go back to that – again and again.Look forward now – and focus on your passions with joyful anticipation.Then your passion will fill the gap of your loss...and where you land us will amaze you!
— The Truth