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it is sweet and entertaining to look into my being when all my powers and passions are united and engaged in pursuit of Thee,
— Anonymous
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
— Bertrand Russell
Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.
— Scott Weiss
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
— George Berkeley
My focus each day is to be myself, live my true passions, inspire greater health and wear my soul shamelessly, with strength and grace.
— Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram
The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions.
— Luc De Clapiers
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
You must live the life of your dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A wise man rules his passions, fool obeys them.
— Publilius Syrus
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.
— Oscar Wilde
Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
These conquerors of the world are slaves to their passions, and someday their passions will bring them down.
— Francine Rivers
One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.
— Anna Julia Cooper
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
— Lao-Tzu
Make a list of your food-centric passions, as well as the types of posts - reviews, top-ten lists, and interviews are
— Kelly Senyei
He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.
— Sarah Bernhardt
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
— Guy De Maupassant
It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to discover about our own can only be learned from them.
— Marcel Proust
I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.
— Omar Sharif
Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
— Thomas Aquinas
I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyeilding calling and my passion.
— Elizabeth Reyes
Make your life a monument of visions. Serving, caring, and sharing are the passions.
— Debasish Mridha
The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement.
— Saul Bellow
All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.
— Michel De Montaigne
But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes.
— Isaac Watts
What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance.
— Charlotte Eriksson
Ones own soul, and the passions of one's friends - those were the fascinating things in life.
— Oscar Wilde
There is an event once a year that I'm able to sing at, through 'Passions,' in Tennessee. That's always fun. We perform at the Wild Horse Saloon.
— Lindsay Hartley
Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
I have a tremendous respect for writers who scribble away their torments, and their passions into plays.
— Rob Urbinati
A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.
— Saint Dominic
The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Mobs have passions, not brains.
— Dan Simmons
Indeed time has that ultimate capacity to render the passions of the past when recalled in the present as no more than grandiloquent gestures.
— F. Sionil Jose
In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery over him, and govern him in turn.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
That's what unconditional love is all about - being an encourager of people's passions, loves, and dreams - even if you don't agree with them.
— Robin S. Sharma
For a taste for variety is one of the characteristic passions of democracy.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
I believe that if you follow your dreams, passions and aspirations you can become successful!
— Shadonna Jordan
Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.
— John Churton Collins
His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Feel your emotions,
Live true your passions,
Keep still your mind. — Geoffrey M. Gluckman
Live true your passions,
Keep still your mind. — Geoffrey M. Gluckman
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
— Stendhal
All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
If you feel like you have two or three real passions, don't pick and choose between them. Don't discard. Keep all your passions in your life.
— Austin Kleon
We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.
— Sydney J. Harris
We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
— Honore De Balzac
In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The passions we have aren't accidents. God placed them there for a purpose - for His purpose.
— Christin Slade
Everybody carried their unique hopes, dreams, and passions in their hearts. The trick was finding someone who shared them. Or would at least listen.
— Erica Ridley
Buffeted by the passions and longings of youth.
— Jon Krakauer
Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The warrior of light plunges unhesitatingly into the river of passions always flowing through his life.
— Paulo Coelho
Follow your passions, believe in karma, and you won't have to chase your dreams, they will come to you.
— Randy Pausch
For those ashamed of him Cupid reserves the bitterest passions.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Define your life,
Define your world,
Define your passions,
Define your goals. — Lailah Gifty Akita
Define your world,
Define your passions,
Define your goals. — Lailah Gifty Akita
Lincoln learned to summon the passions, but he never addressed his audience as sweethearts.
— Richard Brookhiser
Paganism declared that virtue was in a balance; Christianity declared it was in a conflict: the collision of two passions apparently opposite. Of
— G.K. Chesterton
As Kierkegaard said, "To win a crowd is no art; for that only untruth is needed, nonsense, and a little knowledge of human passions.
— Brian Zahnd
However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
— Nacho Figueras
For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.
— Amy Tan
Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
When you're passionate about God, you can trust your passions.
— Erwin McManus
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.
— Algernon H. Blackwood
Don't follow your passions; follow your effort. It will lead you to your passions and to success.
— Brant Cooper
Vices are often habits rather than passions.
— Antoine Rivarol
Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.
— Richard Wagner
The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.
— Victor Hugo
Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous.
— Terry McMillan
The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.
— Thomas Hobbes
If we knew what is already there, there will be no need for research.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
— Samuel Johnson
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
— Edmund Burke
I always wanted to be an actress. It's been very high up on my list of passions, and I did a couple of short courses, and I've studied at school.
— Tahyna Tozzi
The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
— Charles De Gaulle
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
— Mason Cooley
Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.
— Lord Chesterfield
The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
— Alexander Hamilton
Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate.
— Anthony Ashley Cooper
Passions change, politics are immutable.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Your passions are a bit like your fingerprints: Everybody has them; everybody's are different. One's passions may just be a guidebook to one's life.
— Nick Woodman
We are minor in everything but our passions.
— Elizabeth Bowen
In this way he will draw men to him by the strong cords of their passions, made reason-proof by being baptized with the name of piety.
— Christopher Hitchens
Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Death is a cessation from the impression of the senses, the tyranny of the passions, the errors of the mind, and the servitude of the body.
— Marcus Aurelius
I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
— Michel De Montaigne
The first part of saving your life is coming to understand how you endangered it by loving wrongly, and living under the rule of your passions.
— Rod Dreher
Climbing is often group activity and it's always inspiring to see how other people, who share your passions, do things.
— Fred Nicole