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• Passion is the breath we take, the water we drink to sustain ourselves. Without air and water we perish; without passion an artist will wither and blow away.

  Jack White

  Artist, Blow, Air

  Jack White (2013). “Methods of Success: Artists fail because of unfounded fear, jealousy, insecurity, not knowing and a lack of confidence. This book will eliminate these lies from your life.”, p.139, Lulu Press, Inc

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• To live passionately, we ought to be able to look once again at the people we once cared for deeply and painfully.

  Paul Delaroche

  People, Looks, Able

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• As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

  Lord Byron

  Nature, Long, Feelings

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.21, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn't want to live without passion.

  Hugh Hefner

  Life, Family, Dream

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• It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate about filmmaking. It's what I love to do.

  Spike Lee

  People, Important, Want

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• Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Work, Inspire

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• Three 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.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Strong, Fear

  Autobiography prologue (1967)

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• Creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.

  Anni Albers

  Creating, Excitement, Intense

  Anni Albers (1962). “On designing”

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• You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Success, Achievement

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• Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

  William Shakespeare, James N. Loehlin (2002). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.98, Cambridge University Press

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• I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.

  Charlie Sheen

  Love, Anger, Thinking

  "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell, www.today.com. February 28, 2011.

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• Being an artist is celebrating life.

  Henry Moore

  Artist, Celebrate Life, Celebrate

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• For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.

  George Chapman

  Heat, Stills, Knows

  'Monsieur D'Olive' (1606) act 5, sc. 1

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• Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

  Julia Child

  Inspirational, Leadership, Sports

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from Sep 01, 2013

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• Happy are those lovers who, when their senses require rest, can fall back upon the intellectual enjoyments afforded by the mind! Sweet sleep then comes, and lasts until the body has recovered its general harmony. On awaking, the senses are again active and always ready to resume their action.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Sweet, Fall, Sleep

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 2: To Paris and Prison”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• 'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

  Samuel Richardson

  Kissing, Feelings, Looks

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• They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

  Marquis de Sade

  Philosophy, Thinking, Light

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• I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Winning, May, Fountain

  'Dejection: an Ode' (1802) st. 3

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• What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Mistake, Stronger, Energy

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  Every great dream begins with a dreamer.

  Harriet Tubman

  Inspiring, Dream, Black History

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• I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Pain, Names, Laughing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mean, Mind, Clarity

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• A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

  Thomas Fuller

  Running, Horse, Men

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• All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Blood, Degrees, Different

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 580-81, Premier Supplement, VIII, 1922.

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• Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Madness, Mere

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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