Passion
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It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.
I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano.
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
