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The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.
habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.
I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.
All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.
When you have a passion for something, it makes you excited to jump out of bed each day and go for it.
When you have passion for something you find a way to make it happen - this is the panacea to success.
Charlie [Munger] and I are not big fans of resumes. Instead, we focus on brains, passion and integrity.
Don't do it for the money. Follow the path to do what makes your heartbeat faster. Follow your passion.
The goal of the gospel is to produce a type of people consumed with passion for God an love for others.
What [Prozac] does is completely annihilate the sexual drive, so the question of passion hardly arises.
I hate the rich snots here with a fervent passion I usually reserve only for dental work and my father.
The passions of love ignite, the emotions of love kindle, but the actions of love set the heart ablaze.
Internet has been really amazing, and I think it's a place of great passion, creativity, and knowledge.
Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around.
I never did cross training or lifted weights or put anything between myself and my passion for running.
With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.
The warrior of light plunges unhesitatingly into the river of passions always flowing through his life.
We’re not always going to be here. Live life to the full, with purpose & passion, pursuing your dreams.
Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.
Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality
There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.
The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.
At a very young age in Canada, I had mapped out that my mission in life and my passion was live events.
Art is the most important thing to me in the entire world. It is my passion. Nothing else. End of story.
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music... It's my fascination, my on-going passion.
Our passions may be compared to certain slaves--the more severity we show them, the better they obey us.
Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word
You have to love something and have a passion for it to be disciplined. My commitment was purely to golf
Pursuing a God-ordained passion, no matter how crazy it seems, is the most responsible thing you can do.
I've always found the secret is to stay fit and treat sport as a profession. I chose sport as a passion.
Whatever it is that you do, if you have that passion and desire for it, that's the most important thing.
The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.
If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.
Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better
I think that is a very important component, to have passion, to have a dream, to have a purpose in life.
The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
Acting has always been my passion. It's always been my love, and I've always done it, since I was a kid.
My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.
In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up.
It is, perhaps, a better thing to be valued only as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.
Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you.