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I hope to inspire you to recognize that your reason for existence is to pursue the things that excite you the most. The best thing you can do--for yourself and everyone else--is to act on the things you're most passionate about. When you do, you'll shine, and everyone else will see that brilliance.On a biological level, the mirror neutrons of the people around you will activate. They will recognize that they can also follow their dreams and accomplish things they have always wanted to accomplish. On a spiritual level, their souls will remember their reason for being.
— Michael  Sanders, Ayahuasca: An Executive's Enlightenment
I believe eros dwells in our innermost being as the spirit of creative expression. To me, eros is a great path that we must walk, a song we listen to, a game that we hunt and enjoy, a lesson to learn, a garden where flowers bloom, a prodigious puzzle to solve, a book to read, a chapter to write, and an ocean to swim in. That’s what eros is to me.
— Salil Jha, Naked Soul: The Erotic Love Poems
Suicide is a confession of failure. And like divorce, it is shrouded in excuses and rationalizations spun endlessly to disguise the simple fact that all one's energy, passion, appetite and ambition have been aborted.
— Al Álvarez, The Savage God: A Study of Suicide
Men hate passion, any great passion. Henry Cameron made a mistake : he loved his work. That was why he fought. That was why he lost.
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
and this passion, like bad kerosene, barely burns.
— César Vallejo
What is the point of all the money in the world if you don't have the freedom to do the things you love?
— Anamika Mishra, VoiceMates - A Novel
What I Have Lived ForThree passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found.With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.
— Bertrand Russell
You are like the winged goddess from Greek mythology. As beautiful and soaring like an angel as her". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion:
— Olga Goa
Two people, one city, different times; connected by a memoir. Can love exist in a city destined for decades of misery?
— Ahmad Ardalan, The Gardener of Baghdad
Life must be live daringly.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
You've got something that I don't have. Innocence. Ur eyes express it, & I can read everything in them". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion
— Olga Goa
If only he could convince her, his dream would be within reach
— Anamika Mishra, VoiceMates - A Novel
She sang late into the night, till her heart was full
— Anamika Mishra, VoiceMates - A Novel
I love the beauty of nature.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Pursue your dreams with great might.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Passion is a greater height of motivation that keeps you going strong even when the end is far from being near.
When love beckons to you, follow him,Though his ways are hard and steep.And when his wings enfold you yield to him,Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.And when he speaks to you believe in him,Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
You are like the winged goddess from Greek mythology. As beautiful and soaring like an angel as her". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion
— Olga Goa
Although I think the word "pleasure" is unknown to you. More precisely, its practical meaning". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion
— Olga Goa
I cannot perceive that you're still a girl. Ur kisses don't seem so innocent. They just drive me crazy!" #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion
— Olga Goa
No matter how far apart we may be, no matter what dreams we may chase after individually, I want you to know that you will always be my first priority. I will always, always love you.
— Lindsay Detwiler, Voice of Innocence
Women are mysterious beings in which lie strange delights.
— Stefan Emunds
Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.
— Abraham H. Maslow
In trying moments, you must keep trying... In grieving times, don't think of giving up! Employ your passion to work; something great to enjoy is approaching!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Love and Hate: both are four-lettered and both involve passion. And sometimes when love turns into hate, passion grows murderous.
— Natalya Vorobyova
Don't agree and believe that success comes free... Gold on the floor is a lie! You must dig deep and then you will reap big!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Sometimes, in order to achieve our goals, we have to change ourselves. Sometimes we have to change ourselves just to survive. We might worry that we’re becoming an entirely different person. But this is often what’s required to move on to the place we want to be.If the goal is passion, the kind of passion that leads to love, you can pretty much guarantee that the journey is going to change you. But the one thing that never changes is the heart. And since the heart wants what the damn heart wants, be prepared to probably get the shit kicked out of you for a while to make it happen.But if you can hold tight and white-knuckle the turbulence, it’s usually a worthwhile trip.Because the destination is fucking fabulous.
— Darien Cox, Victim of Love
This is why I stayed away," he growled against my mouth as his hands started to rove over me with knowing, ruthless passion. "Can't be near you without wanting you. Can't stop myself anymore--
— Jeaniene Frost, The Beautiful Ashes
You can do it. Go ahead and pursue your dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Our eyes are closed, but even without seeing, they’re only for each other.
— A.J. Compton, The Counting-Downers
Find your purpose and passionately live it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
You have to be passionately curious in life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
A team's inspiration comes from individuals' aspirations. The combined quality of individual passions makes a team's impact to excel. When you are in a team, play a part!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Impossibilitarians are defeated before the battle even begins. The best attitude that accommodates failure is disbelief. You can't do it because you believe you can't! You can do it because you believe you can!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Prayer has to be fervent, intensive, passionate and from the heart.
— Sunday Adelaja
Mentoring is passion for skills and knowledge-transfer to young people
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I want to forget myself in you..." #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion
— OlgaGOA
You are like a narcotic plant..." #TimothySvetlov. #ItalianPassion
— OlgaGOA
You want to achieve your dreams early, right? I know of only one back door; that's HARDWORK. Only few people use that entrance so the advantage is that there is no or less traffic there!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
God’s passion is to increase and multiply.
— Sunday Adelaja
Stop smiling as if we'd been acquainted with you for ages!" #VeronicaLedyanova. #ItalianPassion
— OlgaGOA
Explore the wonders of different shades of colours. It is purely lovely.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
If your passion does not keep you sleepless, you can't be a good beginner. When passion itches, a great hand scratches... Wake up, it's your time to rise above idleness!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
God is not a God of confusion, although at times one's judgment, for a period, may become clouded in the mi(d)st of one's growth process. I stopped fooling myself into thinking that Christ is always for the cool kids and never for those upright and uptight religious people everybody hates.
— Criss Jami, Healology
No struggle, no success! The strongest thunder strikes often bring the heaviest rainfall! The weight of your fulfillment depends on how wide you cast your nets!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
If you cannot see the rainbow because your face is down, don't argue that no rainbow is up there. Lift up your passion and take your dreams off the ground!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
You know not, yet, the sort of love that strikes like a lightning bold; that clutches hold of you by the heart, as irrevocably as death; that becomes the lodestar by which you steer the rest of your life.
— Juliet Marillier, Daughter of the Forest
Nay, without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison with our moods and passions, atom calling to atom in secret love or strange affinity?
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
If you have the desire, passion and enthusiasm to do something, nothing in the world will stop you.
— Carlos Wallace, Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments Into Your Greatest Blessings
Laziness is when your sleep overcomes your passion, not under the influence of drugs but under the control of excuses and procrastination!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Look beyond what you think is possible for you… Stretch your imagination… Free your creativity… Dare to be different! Become fearless and free! Embrace your dreams with passion!
— Millen Livis
Our most challenging and painful experiences become our credentials for helping people.
— Millen Livis
The air between us crackles like it always has, like it has its own energy or frequency. One of us is going to bend. One of us is going to break.
— Lauren Blakely, 21 Stolen Kisses
You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.
— Oscar Wilde
Measurements "are never enough. The artist's eye and desire to breathe life into the subject must be the deciding factors.
— David McCullough
Are you trying to call me strange, Mandrake?” I pout playfully.He nods. “Your strange is what makes you sensational to me.
— Chelsea Ballinger, Sinners & Saints
I hear your voice in my sleep. When I’m near you, I am aware of every fucking second your body shifts. When I’m not near you... I can’t even think straight because I’m too busy thinking about what stupid thing you said or visualizing every smile you give me. Seeing you with my brother awakens my dark heart... kissing you, carves out my soul. I forsake every itch my body has for you just so I cannot be trapped by you. Never in my life have I wanted a woman so much yet couldn’t do it because I know that once we really just...” I lift my hands up clawing at the air. “When we sink into each other... it will be over.
— Chelsea Ballinger, Sinners & Saints
Passionately develop a positive and pragmatic psychology
—  a fine skill set
Choosing the wrong way makes us feel different and ensured you to take right decision
— Nitesh Nishad
Denim and doubt, cotton and caution, fell to the floor in a forgotten heap
— Karen Keast, The Surprise Of His Life
If they had given in to passion, throwing caution to the wind,they would have lost everything.
— Anuradha Bhattacharyya, The Road Taken
What I am interested in, what I write and care about, exists in the slow lane, somewhere between hand-ploughed fields and a pint of real ale.
— Fennel Hudson, A Writer's Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 3
When we look back at life we realize no true moment defined us, but in fact the events leading up to that moment.
— Chris Burkmenn
The man up there raged aloud in two languages, and with a sincerity in his fury that almost convinced me I had, in some way, sinned against the harmony of the universe
— Joseph Conrad
...people live longer when they decide to become passionately involved in something beyond themselves.
— Richard Foth, A Trip Around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life Into the Adventure of a Lifetime
Without passion, nobody can truly commit to anything and without optimism, positive outcomes become scarce.
— Miguel Reynolds Brandao, The Sustainable Organisation - a paradigm for a fairer society: Think about sustainability in an age of technological progress and rising inequality
Find a vocation and passionately commit your life to it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Quitters and waiters have a varied beginning, but a similar ending. They don't win! Don't wait; don’t quit... Arise and shine with the light of passion right there in you!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
The only real difficulty with becoming disciplined is when you buy into the notion that happiness comes at the price of sacrifice. The reality is this: Discipline becomes freedom when you are doing what you love.
— Shannon L. Alder
I write to forget the days that broke me into a million nights.
— Jenim Dibie, The Calligraphy of God
When passion blends with profession it turns into a masterpiece...
— Ramana Pemmaraju
How marvellously lie our anxieties, in filmy layers, one over the other! Take away that which has lain on the upper surface for so long—the care of cares—the only one, as it seemed to you, between your soul and the radiance of Heaven—and straight you find a new stratum there. As physical science tells us no fluid is without its skin, so does it seem with this fine medium of the soul, and these successive films of care that form upon its surface on mere contact with the upper air and light.
— J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas
Help people.Be interested.Make a difference.Live passionately.Go comando.
— Crystal Woods, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
Kat stood immobile and watched with pain, a kiss of passion, a kiss of desire; a kiss that could never be hers.
— Kiki Archer, But She Is My Student
We often lose ourselves to where we think we should be, rather than celebrate where we already are.
— Chris Burkmenn
Those for whom things came easily usually made less of an effort, not more.
— David McCullough, The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
Her genius derives from the fact that she was capable of the deepest feeling but also of the most discerning and disciplined thought.
— David Brooks
Your love is the platform for my passion manifesto.
— Amanda Mosher, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
May this night come wearing drunk cloak of love, carrying passionate desires, and intoxication of love! Tonight, may I get so drunk in love that I do not see any dreams!
— Suman Pokhrel
God is the source of life, wealth and honour. Live life for His glory.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Passion and frigidity are like milk and coffee. They can't be perfect without each other...
— Amine The I
All roads are tough, but you have to choose the one you know you'll never be sorry for taking.
— Chris Burkmenn
Democracy is more vindictive than cabinets, the wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.
— Winston S. Churchill
To such an extent does passion manifest itself in us as a temporary and distinct character, which not only takes the place of our normal character but actually obliterates the signs by which that character has hitherto been discernible.
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
One more action to transform your dreams, one more passion to reform your brand; give one more trial and you’ll never regret your willingness to hold on!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
One of the great wonders of Christianity is that you were born into your times, to set your times aright.
— John Eldredge, Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face
As the days went by, the evolution of like into love was accelerated.  White Fang himself began to grow aware of it, though in his consciousness he knew not what love was.  It manifested itself to him as a void in his being—a hungry, aching, yearning void that clamoured to be filled.  It was a pain and an unrest; and it received easement only by the touch of the new god’s presence.  At such times love was joy to him, a wild, keen-thrilling satisfaction.  But when away from his god, the pain and the unrest returned; the void in him sprang up and pressed against him with its emptiness, and the hunger gnawed and gnawed unceasingly.
— Jack London
The tragedy in life to mourn over is the death of what lies within a person who is still alive. The death of a potential is a mess of destiny!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Fulfilling your divine passion brings gladness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Reach out and fulfill your divine passion.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night.
— David Leavitt
I am not a day dreamer, I am a believer, that after every painful love I have gone through, it is just an experience to crack open the deepest parts of my core and allow to me to delve into a passion so rare, that I will find a love that was almost, never meant to be.
— Nikki Rowe
You turn me on from across the room, and I’ll completely melt if you come any closer.
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2
My heart dances with joy and sings with passion when it hears the music of love.
— Debasish Mridha
Nothing matures a Man like RESPONSIBILITIES,Nothing humbles him like MISSED OPPORTUNITIES,What makes him are his CHOICES,And nothing changes him like LOVE.Nothing defines a Man like his CHARACTER,Nothing teaches him like his EXPERIENCE,What drives him is his VISION,And nothing weakens him like BETRAYAL.Nothing scares a Man like losing his EGO,Nothing pursues him like his PASSION,What interests him is his GAME,And nothing intoxicates him like his DESIRES.But above all, NOTHING FAVOURS A MAN LIKE FINDING A GOOD WOMAN.
— Olaotan Fawehinmi, The Soldier Within
I want to shake them for their ignorance and scream that their Sistine Chapel is filled with cracks.
— Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer
She wanted to remind him, whether his family was there or not. She wanted. And wanted. And endured in her wanting: the damp seat, the dry chicken, more champagne, the headache the champagne brought, the midges, the chat, his failure, no refusal, to look, look at me, I caused a thunderstorm with my passion and I sit here shaking under my skin and you don't notice because you're trying so hard not to notice, but all the people at the table there are really only you and me and you know it, the air is charged with it, it's a heat, a hot wind, and Marina and Seely are a sham next to it, Annabel ceases to exist, is simply obliterated in the gale of it, this isn't a fantasy, not my imagination, I can tell by the way you lift your fork, by the set of your jaw, by that sixth cigarette you are smoking me, or would if you could; but how long can we sustain it, how long till eruption, till the storm returns again and they can all see what it is, what it really is?
— Claire Messud
Live with style and passion
—  don't seek the permission of others.
I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of.
— Jane Austen, Lady Susan
When all the fights stop, so does the passion.
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2
The fury of confession, at first,then the fury of clarity:It was from you, Death, that such hypocriticalobscure feeling was born! And nowlet them accuse me of every passion,let them bad-mouth me, let them say I’m deformed,impure, obsessed, a dilettante, a perjurer.You isolate me, you give me the certainty of life,I’m on the stake. I play the card of fireand I win this little, immense goodness of mine.I can do it, for I have suffered you too much!I return to you as an émigré returnsto his own country and rediscovers it:I made a fortune (in the intellect)and I’m happy, as I once was,destitute of any norm,a black rage of poetry in my breast.A crazy old-age youth.Once your joy was confused with terror,it’s true, and now almost with other joy,livid and arid, my passion deluded.Now you really frighten me,for you are truly close to me,part of my angry state, of obscure hunger,of the anxiety almost of a new being.
— Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roman Poems
Skateboarding has taught me two things - that symbolise a meaning of life. How to keep a balance and how to pick yourself up when you've fallen.
— Nikki Rowe
Your knowledge is not a substitute for your passion. No matter how knowledgeable you are, when laziness takes the lead in your daily decisions, your knowledge becomes valueless!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
If you add your hot passion to the cold attitude of another person, it becomes lukewarm. Don’t stand on the toes of dwarfs; stand on the shoulders of giants!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
With every breath i take, I take one for her.
— J. Daniels
If there is no love, how can there be passion or reason?
— Debasish Mridha
Refuse to live a settle for it life.
— Karen Salmansohn
Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.
— Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way
Feeling lonely? Wish you had a special someone to help fill the void? Reconsider your definition of romance, reconnect to your passions and be swept away.
— Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
The true soldier fights
— G.K. Chesterton
Understanding the world too well, you see too many options and become as indecisive as Hamlet.No matter how far we progress, we remain part animal, and it is the animal in us that fires our strategies, gives them life, animates us to fight. Without the desire to fight, without a capacity for the violence war churns up, we cannot deal with danger.The prudent Odysseus types are comfortable with both sides of their nature. They plan ahead as best they can, see far and wide, but when it comes time to move ahead, they move. Knowing how to control your emotions means not repressing them completely but using them to their best effect.
— Robert Greene, The 33 Strategies of War
It's alright to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
Will: I've never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You'd think they were diamonds.Tessa: Well, they are, aren't they? Isn't there anything you love like that?
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
There is a 100% assurance that what your friend’s enemy tells you about your friend is false. What your failure tells you about your passion is fake. Don’t give up!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
It was so odd what brought out tenderness in people. It was never what you have expected.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
Most of us do things for reasons that are more purely personal. For love, or for hate.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
I am a woman first of all. At the core of my work was a journal written for the father I lost, loved and wanted to keep. I am personal. I am essentially human, not intellectual. I do not understand abstract act. Only art born of love, passion, pain.
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
Whatever you are physically, male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy - all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. Whatever the color, the shape, the design of the shade that conceals it, the flame inside the lamp remains the same. YOU are the flame. That's what I believe.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers - lovely, but dead.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams
— Donovan Bailey
Your passion may determine what you can do, but your attitude redefines how far you can go while you do what you can. Your attitude leads you and you lead other people!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
Aspirations don’t make poets, perseverance does. Flow with the emotions, let your imagination soar, find what ignites the fire within and let it go wild.
— Balroop Singh
Homemaking is a passion you can pass on from generation to generation.
— Elizabeth George
Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
God beckons me to exhilarating adventures that are without number, beyond all conceivable boundaries, and effortlessly eclipse the furthest reaches of my imagination, all while I sit languishing in stifling adventures of my own limited creation.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Tessa: Are all vampires like that? Cold like that?Charlotte: Many of them have been alive a long time. They don't see things the way we do.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
My head, something happened to its insides. It was as if a storm at sea happened, but only for a moment, and only on the inside of my head. My ribcage, something definitely happened there. It was as if it unknotted itself from itself, like the hull of a ship hitting rock, giving way, and the ship that I was opened up inside me and in came the ocean.He was the most beautiful boy I had ever seen in my life.But he looked really like a girl.She was the most beautiful boy I had ever seen in my life.
— Ali Smith
Your passion sustains you. Your purpose is why you were created. Follow your passion but ensure you fulfill your purpose.
— Kemi Sogunle
You are likely to lose the heat of your passion irrespective of how hot it was when you surrender yourself to a leader with lukewarm attitude.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
You can’t perform well in what you don’t love to do well. You can lead in what you can’t perform well. To lead well, be sure where you are, is where you supposed to be!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
You don’t need to provide answers to question like “why were you born?”. Be committed to what excites you and what excites you will provide the answers!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Once you have the vision and the passion to make it happen, you will achieve your dreams. It is up to you to decide when to make it happen; attitudes guide you to answer that!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.
— Euripides, Medea
all the wordsall the poems know my warm, soft spots.
— Sanober  Khan
What you love, you must love all the harder because someday it will be gone.
— Stephen King, Black House
O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?
— Euripides, Medea
Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.
— Euripides, Medea
Do not fear the fire within you, burning brighter than any star it attracts only those whose flame feeds off the very air that you breathe. Let passion be the inferno that engulfs your soul.
— Virginia Alison
Trapped in infernoIt blazed brighter than the sunHis desire for her
— Archana Chaurasia Kapoor
Within her presence, I had once been usedto feeling—trembling—wonder, dissolution;but that was long ago. Still, though my soul,now she was veiled, could not see her directly,by way of hidden force that she could move,I felt the mighty power of old love.
— Dante Alighieri
It is one thing doing what you love for a living. It is another thing doing what you love with love
— Rasheed Ogunlaru, Soul Trader: Putting the Heart Back into Your Business
She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to blow so strongly that it stops the breath.
— Thomas Hardy
A love-story is a book to be read by everyone whose heart beats for someone!
— Archana Chaurasia Kapoor
…I am left with lessthan one drop of my blood that does not tremble.I recognize the the signs of the old flame.
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio
The odds may be stacked against you. But I believe when you tap into your unique gifts and abilities, while combining them with a sense of purpose, passion, and perseverance you will not only defy those odds, you will help create a better life for yourself and rest of us.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
To hell with passive, inflict your passion on me.
— H.A. Kotys, Is This Me
I'll turn on the music;  if your willing to dance, I'll walk beside you;  If you hold my hand, I'll supply the candle; But you must know how to light  your own way ,  I'll keep you wild,  If you keep me safe.  I'll help you unpack,  But i won't carry the load;  Help me learn to love unconditionally,  And I'll teach you to grow.  Love isn't easy, but it never should be hard; Live courageous with me, passion in our hearts.
— Nikki Rowe
Every new day comes with a new joy, a new plan and a new life, all to be directed by the same old God! You need a new dream, a new passion and a new hope to pursue your old destiny!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
I have fallen in love with writing, unknowingly. Instead of thinking whether people will like what I write or not, I decide to write only for one person- myself! I told myself that ‘I as an author is going to entertain I as an audience.’ And everything changed that day!When you find your passion, don’t succumb to the pressure of succeeding.Follow your passion just for yourself and for the sheer joy of it. You will see amazing things will follow- that’s a guarantee.
— Vishwas Mudagal
Penelope Sheehan, I love you more than the sunrise over the ocean, more than freedom. I would die, willingly, to keep you from a moment's pain. I promise you the full strength of my back and spirit in our shared journey, all the days of our lives. I will never forsake or betray you. I am yours to my last breath.
— Ellen Connor, Daybreak
[Darlin'] it does not surprise me that someone with as much passion as you would feel the music in your bones.
— Kallypso Masters, Nobody's Dream
The odds may be stacked against you. Yet, I believe, when you tap into your unique gifts and abilities, while combining them with a sense of purpose, passion, and perseverance, you will not only defy those odds, you will help create a better life for yourself and the rest of us.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
There is always a spark before a drive. Don’t expect any miracle to occur in your life if you won’t avail yourself to be sparked by the Holy Spirit of God!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Goddammit, Pen!" Lightning lit him from behind. "That's not happening. And if you ever use magic on me again without my permission, we're done. You owe me a fucking apology for last time.
— Ellen Connor, Daybreak
Think about what you are passionate about. Dream about it. Write it down. Read it always. Now, live it. Whatever you are passionate about will directly lead you to your purpose!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
how is it thathe's alwaysin my thoughts. even when i am not thinking.
— Sanober  Khan, A Thousand Flamingos
i am eithera stormor a drought.in-betweenshave neverbeen my thing.
— Sanober  Khan
all my lifei have looked for poemsto elope with.
— Sanober  Khan
i am infinitely yearningbrimmingand overflowingin wordsi discoverit’s another wayfor meto be in tears.
— Sanober  Khan, Turquoise Silence
kisses... areand always will be the only language that I will have ever truly known.
— Sanober  Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest
Maybe that was why the French called orgasms “las petites morts”: because the things that bring us passion tend to slip past our defenses, to creep insidiously into every facet of our consciousnesses and kill us as ruthlessly, and efficiently, as any drug.
— Nenia Campbell, Cease and Desist
My storm is my own...Enter if you dare. However, bear in mind that the tempest of desire is fraught with unpredictability from the highest peaks to the depths of the abyss. Do not expect a smooth ride, but expect a true and passionate one...
— Virginia Alison
He tastes like mint and posession and fire.
— A. Zavarelli, Victoria's Downfall
Stop living in the shadows of another. You've been given everything needed to live a purposed filled life. Don't be a second rate version of yourself.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
Skill without passion would have been drudgery. Passion without skill would have been torture.
— Sweety Shinde, Arjun: Without a Doubt
Whatever you choose to do with your time on earth, do it passionately, follow the voice of your soul and don't focus some much on being interested in life, but being the interesting one full of life.
— Nikki Rowe
And I’m trying to stay strong. I really, really am. But he smells so damn good, and his lips are just right there. All soft and inviting… and all I can think about is having them on my body.
— A. Zavarelli, Gabriel's Collar
Her steel blue eyes captivated him at first glance and along with the alluring scent of jasmine surrounding her presence, he lost all sense of time and rhythm, and barely remembered the ensuing conversation. Thinking he had died and gone to heaven, the only thing that stuck in his memory, as they found themselves pressed urgently against the wall of her hotel room, was her name; Ginny.
— Virginia Alison, Heaven Scent
If you follow your passion, it will lead you to fulfillment.
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
Mediocrity is ‘purpose’ left to rot in minds ensnared in the deluded rationalization that vision is nothing more than a collection of fanciful dreams constructed by an imaginary God.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Even the moon cannot escape your intoxicating charms...
— Virginia Alison
I am Angel. I am demon. I am woman. I am heaven and hell rolled into one.Kiss me passionately, let me taste your desire, feed my soul and your heaven becomes mine...Beget a maelstrom, feel the abyss shudder. hear the wails of anguish and my hell becomes yours...
— Virgina Alison
It was at that point Ginny felt a presence and turning to look into his eyes she knew destiny was waiting, just around the corner, over the hill. His dark limpid pools, full of hope and wonder, gazed longingly at her and slowly, as his stare captured her heart, a hush descended. All that surrounded them slipped away into darkness until she could see only him. What happened next was a blur.
— Virginia Alison, Heaven Scent
People quick to criticize others, but won't shine the light on themselves. You can't always judge a book by the outside appearance. You have to open it up and read in order to discover how precious it is.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
Complaining from lack of food doesn't always affect my emotions. complaining from lack of knowledge, passion, creative ideas and happiness always does.
— Sameh Elsayed
If you add the shadow of death to a moment of passion you are in that instant free of all normal ties, your mind grows still and your body enters a state of non-being.
— Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love
Happiness does not mean the absence of problems, but the existence of passion.
— Sameh Elsayed
A catalyst by definition creates a reaction, but itself remains unchanged. Be a positive catalyst for a cause you are passionate about. I dare you to remain unchanged!
— Michele Jennae
As I go under, I wonder if there’s a reason for art?
— Kelli Russell Agodon, Hourglass Museum
I'm a Sociopath!
— Kathleen Hubbs
The sea loved the moonWhen she was supposed to love the shore.The moon knewAnd hence made his intentions known. That she should love the shoreWho was destined for her.Yet his protests seemed weak. And even when he pushed her towards the shore-She always retreated back.To want, to need, to love the moonFor all she's worth.Everyone said, it wasn't meant to happen.Yet, the Tsunami rose that night for their union.
— Saiber, Stardust and Sheets
...but unlike me, she has a hard time saying such things. She loved me with a passion, but I felt it in her expressions, in her touch, in the tender brush of her lips. And, when I needed it most, she loved me with the written word as well.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Longest Ride
Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I'm close.
— Tawny Lara
Maybe fire and kerosene don't go together for a reason.
— Dannika Dark, Three Hours
Tattoos are a permanent commitment of passion
— Tawny Lara
You never get anywhere until you figure out the difference between passion and compassion.
— Cynthia Heimel, A Girl's Guide to Chaos
I invented you the way I like but I have fallen for you the way you are.
— Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel
Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you're missionary about.
— Jeff Bezos
The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest but wholeheartedness... we are typically exhausted because we are not doing our TRUE work.
— Gordon T. Smith, Courage and Calling: Embracing Your God-Given Potential
They all had darkened eyes, eyes that seemed to have a hunger behind them. Borne out of the private convulsions only secret passions can provoke.
— Guy Mankowski, How I Left the National Grid: A post-punk novel
For he who lives as passion directs will not hear argument that dissuades him, nor understand it if he does; and how can we persuade one in such a state to change his ways?
— Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
The missionary is building the product and building the service because they love the customer, because they love the product, because they love the service. The mercenary is building the product or service so that they can flip the company and make money.
— Jeff Bezos
It might come a time to not follow your passion, so to speak, although it must be prioritized. It may be the case that your passion will serve as the medic, your peace of mind, alongside a higher calling, with your higher calling being the point man.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Hence a young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character; the defect does not depend on time, but on his living, and pursuing each successive object, as passion directs. For to such persons, as to the incontinent, knowledge brings no profit; but to those who desire and act in accordance with a rational principle knowledge about such matters will be of great benefit.
— Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
Onward boldly, pursue your passion.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
There is a restlessness unspoken unfelt before, restlessness to throw myself into something significant, I can only imagine and I wish I could feel the claim, the passion of being owned, desire of being wanted, urge to b lost controllably, it is being vulnerable and there is no denying to it, but go ahead with it anyway; till the time it makes you feel alive, taste passion, taste emotion and make love.
— Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel
Where dreams may take you fathoms deep within the soul of the forest. Mists close in around your feathered visions, floating phantoms of days gone by, and days to come, their twirling tendrils tempting your thoughts blossom with the unbound less love and passion you hide within.....
— Virginia Alison
If you want to find your passion, follow your daydreams.
— Rob Liano
In the future he would remember to be kinder to her clothing... provided that she didn't look so damn good in them.
— Jacquelyn Frank, Cursed by Fire
The more the discomfort or the pain or loss, the better you are able to focus and change course of your life!
— Stan The Man SA
In the future he would remember to be kinder to her clothing... provided she didn't look so damn good in them.
— Jacquelyn Frank, Cursed by Fire
We all have something amazingly special in us, and you solely owe it to yourself to discover yours.
Something is askew when our passion for the truth blinds us to other perspectives and to the grace to be able to differ graciously from others and learn from others who may see things very differently than we do.
— Gordon T. Smith, Courage and Calling: Embracing Your God-Given Potential
Where Do You Show Up to Share What You Have to Offer?When You Love What You Do-You Share It Daily
— Ninon de Vere De Rosa
If left to my own simplistic devices and the sorely scant limits of my abilities, would I not die a death of the blandest sort imaginable? And should I not thank God that He graciously gifted me with an imagination that renders such a death entirely unimaginable?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Pray for guidance and follow your intuition. Keep looking for your passion and the contribution that you want to make. By doing what you love and finding how to serve, you add a very special joy to life. ~ UNIVERSE LOVES YOU & SO DO I ❤ #StardustAK ❤
— Abhishek Kumar, Stardust Family - We Are One!
He could not remember a time when she had not been in his life. Their first meeting seemed like an eternity away. 'Love at first sight' everyone said, and she often teased him about his inability to form coherent words when he gazed into her eyes, so profound was his love. They had never spent a day apart, and there had never been a day when he forgot to tell her how much she meant to him...Today was no exception...
— Virginia Alison
The day I smile on you flirting with another man is the day you know our relationship is dead.
— Sarah Morgan, One Night... Nine Month Scandal
Nothing is as deadly as the love of a powerful man.
— Nenia Campbell, Cease and Desist
I have met many minds able to store and translate a pregnantly large amount of information, yet they haven't an ounce of talent for wisdom or the appreciation of passion.
— Kurt Cobain
What haunts me most about her eyes is the pain I put in them...In the corner of my dark soul, her passion is dark like a kohl.She is giving new meaning to these feelings...She is complete, she is whole.
— Dinesh Kumar Biran
The world believes it was built by love but reading Shah Jahan’s own words on the Taj, one could say it was grief that built the Taj Mahal and it was sorrow that saw it through sixteen years till completion.
— Aysha Taryam, The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries
Give chance to your wheels to turn with their maximum potentials as long as your passion fuels your life. Don’t give up
—  you are about to make an overturn!
PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams:	The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;
— Walter Raleigh
We define what we deserve, others also define what we deserve, apparently there is a huge difference and we spend our life constructing the same.
— Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel
Here, illuminated at last,Nestles the ruddy glint of spiritual certainty;Sweet moments of passion and healing,Of sensual release.
— Scott Hastie
Take the chair and sit at the fore-front of your dreams. You are the chair-person at the center of affairs
—  make it memorable
Self-esteem is the garden in which passion bears success flowers. Most people can’t stand out to stand for what supposed to belong to them just because; they feel it can’t be theirs, so it’s not theirs.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Keep moving
—  don't stop by to check on whoever else is not willing to go. The entire road is yours to speed on till you get there. Never be discouraged!
Believe in the promise of today, and have hope in the possibilities of tomorrow
— Chris Burkmenn
And so we smile on,Feeding the truths we shareWith a union of our souls,Cathedral slaves of our passionWhich builds beauty amongst chaos.
— Scott Hastie
Day to day is a process. Dream it, plan it, do it, and make it happen! You're what you act!
— Mahfud Achyar
That’s what artists and athletes do day in and day out. Whether you see them at work or not the process is ongoing. They are working to achieve their heart’s desire to either enlighten or entertain anyone who cares to watch or listen. Some of them achieve glory but others just do it because they love to and they are driven to.When something, anything, interferes with that desire, their sense of self is jeopardized and they have to struggle to hang on to their identity. That’s the real cost involved in producing a painting, writing a novel, or hitting over .300 for the season.
— Richard Marcus
If you will reach your dream land as sooner as possible you have to leave everything behind and fix your eyes on one thing
—  the journey ahead!
There is no master cabal organizing the three-hundred plus Food Not Bombs or mad genius organizing the dozens of Indymedia's across the globe. We can all be the Johnny and Jane Appleseeds of anarchist counter-structure. We do this by harvesting good ideas and strategies from across the globe and replacing them on the local level. And while our passions and ideas should be brash, we should also be inspired by our day-to-day victories. People need to feel encouraged to start small, realizing the infrastructure begets infrastructure.
— Curious George Brigade
Put into actions what you dream of achieving. It'll amaze you to discover that you can do more than you ever dream of. Just give it a try! Never be idle, take actions now!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
When you're passionate about something, you don't need coffee or an energy drink to get you moving.
— Rob Liano
Break every boundary with your inner passion and you will get there successfully. Resist every chance to give up... Believe you can... Rise up after every fall... Be willing to win!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Your challenges are like tall walls with weak foundations. They'll fall when you dare to give them a blow. Don't be afraid to dare... You will surely overcome!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Resting my head on the high-backed chair, I silently marvel at emotion so strong itcan quite literally chase away all reason and good sense. It is something I have neverexperienced. I pity Frances for being victim to such devastating passions. But, if I amhonest, a small part of me envies her, for she possesses something that I should: desirefor my husband. Moreover, she knows what it is to feel alive.
— Ayana Prende, The Anatomy of Desire
Be passionate and become successful. Share your success, be it an information, income and emotions with someone who need them most. You are a success… Make an impact!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Sometimes what you love to do could even make many people to hate you. You may go through non-formal torments, character assassinations, verbal assaults and societal rejections, but if you are convinced about your love for what you are doing, you will never give up.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Successful people are defined as ordinary people who never gave up on their dreams and passion is the secret of that persistence!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!