Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Pursuing your passion is fulfilling and leads to financial freedom.
Pursuing your passion is fulfilling and leads to financial freedom.
“Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.”
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
Your true passion should feel like breathing; it’s that natural.
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
Passion is momentary; love is enduring.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading.
Passion for fame: a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading.
For a woman betrayal has no sense - one cannot betray one's passions.
Passion goes, Boredom remains.
There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.