Quotes About Passion

With increasing passion she loved beauty, for beauty, she told herself, and only beauty, was pure and good and worthy of her love.

His problem was the eternal question: What should he be? Inventor, scientist, artist—the energy he felt surging through him, an energy far more than physical and yet pervading the restlessness of his body, was a burden to him until he could find the path for its release.

It is not that we cannot believe," he replied. "It is that we do not want anything enough. Faith rises from necessity. We have no necessity.

They were young no more, their passion spent unused, but the memory of love remained eternal. Indeed, her mellowed heart was more tender now than ever toward him and there was nothing left that she could not forgive him.

the secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. to know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

Lo que nos hizo encontrarnos fueron dos historias que apenas se dieron la mano en medio de los acontecimientos. Y lo que aquí no pasó, no va a ocurrir en ninguna parte del mundo. Me enamoré de ti como una perra, y tú solamente te dejaste querer. ¿Qué podría ocurrir en Cuba que me ofrezca la esperanza de tu amor...?

Y que más? ¿Qué más quieres? Que me ames un poquito. Tú sabes que te quiero más que un poquito. No es lo mismo, entre amar y querer hay un mundo de diferencia. Te quiero con tu diferencia. No es lo mismo. YO POR TI, como dice una canción, CONTARÍA LA ARENA DEL MAR (con los ojos entornados). POR TI YO SERÍA CAPAZ DE MATAR.

Nunca has pensado escribir?, tú hablas en poesía. ¿Lo sabes? A casi todas las locas enamoradas les florece la voz.

Y allí soltaron la risa, y ahí rieron a más no poder, como si sus corazones salpicaran juntos el arrebato pendejo de un errante frenesí. Qué le importaba a ella lo que pasara, qué le importaría llorar el después, si en ese momento podría morir de solo mirarlo, de solo sentir su mano amarrándole los hombros con el cariño cotorro de su abrazo.

To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our terms, to lead a more passionate, full, and delightful life than that, we must realize that we can endure a lot of pain and pleasure for the sake of finding out who we are and what this world is, how we tick and how our world ticks, how the whole thing just is.

When we don't act out and we don't repress, our passion, our aggression, and our ignorance become our wealth. We don't have to transform anything. Simply letting go of the story line is what it takes, which is not all that easy.

Anger - a better alternative to caffeine.

Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality.

There is no fury like that against one who, we fear, may succeed in making us disloyal to beliefs we hold with passion, but have not really won.

there is clearly a kind of anger that is healthy. It is the concentration of one's whole being in the determination: this must change.

Anger is energy, and you've got to find a place to put it that works for you.

Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.

Anger is the spirits telling you that you are alive.

No passion disturbs the soundness of our judgement as anger does.

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgement as doth anger.

Anger is momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.

Fighting is easier than loving, just as giving in to anger is easier than self-control.

Red-hot anger takes away a lot of the heartache.