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From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start.
More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.
If you didn't have anxiety, then you wouldn't have passion for anything. The reason we have anxiety is because you care and you're thoughtful.
If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.
One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
Find out what your passions are and gauge your limit. Because success requires hard work and perseverance and sadly, not everyone has the two.
A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with as many other waves as there are uneven places in the object where the said wave is produced.
What about passion, dedication, loyalty? Can a robot provide those? No! On the other hand, it's easier to retire a robot when its day is done.
I ride because there’s nothing like in the world. It’s a passion. It’s something I absolutely have to do and I can never imagine not doing it.
To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.
My father worked real hard. I admired him. My father taught me you needed to work with your brain and not your back. I've made that a passion.
I want my words and actions to be the quantification of my love. To make tangible the passions in my heart for the world and the people in it.
Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it's my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.
To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.
Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.
Comfort and familiarity were wonderful but they also dulled passion and excitement. Predictability and habit made surprises almost impossible.
A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger.
Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.
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.
Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor; I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.
There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.
When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.
I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.
I've seen that, over the centuries, India has still got its passion and its soul. Wherever you go, people have such inner strength and beauty.
Your own creations are your own children; you gave life to them, so you'll always have, if not more passion to them, more connections to them.
Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens.
And now let me give the sentiment which has been, and ever will be, the governing passion of my soul: 'Liberty for each, for all, and forever!'
In a way, being an opera singer is like being a very romantic sixteen-year-old who falls in love with great passion and conviction every month.
I have a real passion for bones. I have many others in Boisgeloup: skeletons of birds, dog's and sheep's heads. I even have a rhinoceros skull.
I feel that when you have a passion and you are real, you last throughout the ages and you're able to reincarnate your artistry numerous times.
When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.
There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.
Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites and stills the soul.
He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.
All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.
The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense of life.
You don't have to be a pastor to let your passion be felt and your voice heard. You just need to be willing to be the first one willing to die.
America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine.
I've got a passion for solving a problem that I think I can solve in a new way. And that maybe it helps that nobody has done it before as well.
I like very much to ride horses. I like soccer, I have had a passion for boxing since I was a child, although it would be stupid for me to box.
One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom
I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American citizens. My other passion is the theater.
Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all.
Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.
Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?
There's an element of fervor and passion that you can't describe when it comes to people who, their faith literally might cost them their life.
If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the past.