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Quotations about Passion
Live the ordinary days with passion and exuberance. ~Dr. SunWolf, @WordWhispers, tweet, 2015, professorsunwolf.com
We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1963
If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins. ~Benjamin Franklin
Give me one hour of love that is consumed by the intensity of its own fire, rather than a lifetime of embers whose feeble flame knows not outburst or extinction. ~Muriel Strode (1875–1964), My Little Book of Prayer, 1904
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night. ~Terri Guillemets, 1997
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune... when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Hester and Pearl," The Scarlet Letter: A Romance, 1850
When your love has ceased to be
Like a vivid storm at sea,
Like a lightning sheer and hot
Then my dear, I want it not...
~George Elliston, "Before You Tire," Through Many Windows, 1924
Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it, because what the world needs is people who have come alive. ~Howard Thurman
The fact is, I don't like to hear cut-and-dried sermons. No — when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees! ~Abraham Lincoln, 1860, as quoted by Leonard W. Volk, in Francis F. Browne, The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1887
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. ~Henri Frédéric Amiel, 1856, translated by Mary Augusta Arnold Ward, 1885
But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, "A Flood of Sunshine," The Scarlet Letter: A Romance, 1850
...the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" ~Jack Kerouac, On the Road, 1957
Passion is human nature in its entirety; without passion, religion, history, romance, and art would be useless. ~Honoré de Balzac, translated by Philip Kent
Follow your passion, and success will follow you. ~Terri Guillemets, "The path," 2005
I may never find the thing I seek, but maybe you will have caught the spirit of my dream. ~Muriel Strode (1875–1964), My Little Book of Life, 1912
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