Passion Quotes - Page 13

• There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

  Denis Diderot

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.

  Alan Armstrong

  Greatness, Excellence, May

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• Follow your passion. Magic has no formula.

  Tina Sharkey

  Magic, Follow Your Passion, Formulas

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• Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the human actions and passions, restoring 'Pristine Harmony' of the souls' faculties. He applied the same means to the curing of diseases of both body and mind.

  Porphyry

  Inspiration, Mean, Healing

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• You always start off with passion and the people that have it.

  Gene Simmons

  People

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• An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.

  William Hazlitt

  Coquette, Coquetry, Proportion

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• Love cannot triumph unless it becomes the one passion of our life. Without such passion we may produce isolated acts of love; but our life is not really won over or consecrated to an ideal. Until we have a passionate love for our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament we shall accomplish nothing

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Blessed, Accomplish Nothing, May

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• Every Christian has the power to heal infirmities-not of others, but his own, and not of the body, but of the soul-that is, sins and sinful habits-and to cast out devils, rejecting evil thoughts sown by them, and extinguishing the excitement of passions enflamed by them.

  Theophan the Recluse

  Christian, Humility, Evil

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• Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.

  James Joyce

  Done, Opponents, Reason

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• Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.

  Wallace Stevens

  Fall, Silence, Feels

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.287, Vintage

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• O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions,--sweeter days are thine!

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Sweet, Wine, Voice

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• Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a picture, its every detail is expressive.

  Henri Matisse

  Expression, Faces, Details

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• I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.

  Gloria Naylor

  Drama, Writing, Eye

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• It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such rules and principles, there will be numberless occasions on which you will have no guide for your government but your passions..It is in the Bible, you must learn them, and from the Bible how to practice them.

  John Quincy Adams

  Bible, Practice, Government

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• My mom was a musician, and my dad had this passion for music. That's kind of how a lot of their relationship was built. When I came around, I was constantly exposed to music.

  Eldar Djangirov

  Mom, Dad, Musician

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• Our world is incomplete until each one of us discovers what moves us - our passion. No other person can hear our calling. We must listen and act on it for ourselves.

  Richard Leider

  Life, Moving, Our World

  Richard J. Leider (2008). “The Power of Purpose: Creating Meaning in Your Life and Work: Easyread Edition”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.

  Bernard Berenson

  Stress, Healing, Artist

  Bernard Berenson (1968). “The Florentine painters. The Central Italian painters”

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• Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Cities, Vices

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• I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Song, Children, Summertime

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “Hyperion, a romance. Kavanagh, a tale”, p.79

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• Motivation is in the world around us. We have an infinite amount of material at our disposal, in the lives of those we meet, in what we see and feel, in what we discuss and from the passion of every woman.

  Pablo Picasso

  Motivation, World, Infinite

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• Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken.

  Wallace Stevens

  Acceptance, Broken, Lays

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.331, Vintage

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• Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion

  Helen Rowland

  Baby, Boys, Nineteen

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• The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

  Alexander Pope

  Differences, Giving, Fancy

  Alexander Pope (1846). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John (Lord Bolingbroke). To which are Added, The Universal Prayer, An Essay on the Knowledge and Character of Men, and Other Pieces, with Notes”, p.61

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• Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Boredom, Soul

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• Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing?

  Bernard Berenson

  People, Enemy, Common

  Bernard Berenson (1963). “Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958”, New York : Harcourt, Brace & World

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