Passion Quotes
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.Clive Staples Lewis
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.Seneca
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.Alexander Pope
Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire.La Rochefoucauld
The pleasure of love is in the loving and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.La Rochefoucauld
Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.Dean Koontz
If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength.La Rochefoucauld
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.Ovid
Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.Oliver Wendell Holmes
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring.Martin Luther King
The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.Mark Twain
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.William Sloane Coffin, http: //www. pbs. org/now/society/coffin. html
Yer beautiful in yer wrath! I shall keep you, and in responding to my passions, yer hatred will kindle into love.John Wayne, (as Genghis Kahn to Susan Hayward in the move The Conqueror) 1956
There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.Georges Clemenceau
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.John Milton
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.Saint Thomas Aquinas
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 the maturer life.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
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, Autobiography
It is by no means self - Evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.Thomas Elliot
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, Which wolf will win the fight in your heart? The grandfather answered, The one I feed.Anonymous, As told in Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.Israel Zangwill
This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal - Intellect suggests one course, and our heart or intuition, another.Robert
Love works in miracles every day such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy - Turvy.Marguerite de Valois
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.George Washington Carve
Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.Theodore Isaac Rubin
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.George Santayana
No machine can replace the human spark: spirit, compassion, love and understanding.Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
He was then in his fifty - Fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.G. C. Lichtenberg
Make no judgements where you have no compassion.Anne McCaffrey
The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.George Sand
Compassion is no substitute for justice.Rush Limbaugh
A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self - Knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.Benjamin Disraeli
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.John Adams
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.Henry Ward Beeche
The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.Auguste Renoi
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.Andr Gide
