Passions Quotes
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My work is one of my passions, so I want to treat it with great importance, whatever the project or role.
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The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.
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As countless as grains of sand by the sea are human passions, and they all differ; all of them, vile or lofty, begin by being under a man's control and then become his terrible masters. Blessed is he who has chosen the most lofty of passions: his immeasurable bliss grows and multiplies tenfold with every hour and minute, and he penetrates deeper and deeper into the infinite paradise of his soul.
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I think there's a lot of work to be done with our societies. My biggest passions are the environment and health. And when I say 'health' I mean the secrets behind health and our food system.
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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
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If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?
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Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.
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Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
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It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confedes.
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If you have two or three real passions, don't feel like you have to pick and choose between them. Don't discard. Keep all your passions in your life.
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Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.
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I have so many passions. I'm just going to keep trying to go forward and see where they take me.
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Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.
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Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.
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To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.
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Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions.
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Those who are pure in heart and single in purpose are able to understand the most supreme Way. It is like polishing a mirror, which becomes bright when the dust is removed. Remove your passions, and have no hankering.
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Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
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Blessed the one who meditates on death each day and destroys the base passions lurking in the vines of the heart, for he will be consoled in the moment of separation.
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Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets the world's great need. We need all of you to find your vocation. To develop your joys, your passions, and to match them to the world's great needs.
