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Give me passion -- and compassion -- any day.

Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. I...

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I need sex for a clear complexion but I'd rather do it for love.

I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have not...

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When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote:I must judge f...

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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our ...

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The reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-oriented bastard, it's you I'm addressing, who else, fr...

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I like Diaspora because it's audacious, it's driven by passion, and it's very, very hard to do. Afte...

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He disliked emotion not because he felt lightly but because he felt deeply.

I get into a tearing passion about something I know very little about, and when I learn more my pass...

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The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.

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John CalvinInstitutes of the Christian Religion

There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to l...

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That our affections kill us not, nor dye.

Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there;She gives the best light to his sphere;Or each is both, and...

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John DonneThe Complete English Poems

Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.

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John DonneThe Complete English Poems

How blest am I in this discovering thee!To enter in these bonds is to be free;Then where my hand is ...

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John DonneThe Complete English Poems

A bride, before a "Good-night" could be said,Should vanish from her clothes into her bed,As souls fr...

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John DonneThe Complete English Poems

Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actual...

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You despise the real bourgeois classes for all their snobbishness and their snobbish voices and ways...

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She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a...

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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; ...

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I wanted us to have an adventure. Because I love that crap. Because I'm not whatever-her-name-is. I ...

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John Green (author)Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--Not in lone splendour hung aloft the nightAnd watchi...

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John KeatsBright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught which else free will Would not admit.

Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Wa...

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John Piper (artist)Don't Waste Your Life

But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, a...

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Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Wa...

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John Piper (artist)Don't Waste Your Life

But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, a...

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Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Wa...

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John Piper (theologian)Don't Waste Your Life

But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, a...

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Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Wa...

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John Piper (theologian)Don't Waste Your Life

But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, a...

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You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern E...

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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Light yourself on fire with passion and people will come from miles to watch you burn.

It was a passion neither of the mind nor of the heart, it was a force that comprehended them both, a...

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Passion is momentary love is enduring.

He sees passion in her gray eyes, and it scares him as all passion scares him, his own included.

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John le CarréThe Constant Gardener

Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.

Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is ed...

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Passion makes most psychiatrists nervous

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Joseph CampbellThe Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work.

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Joseph CampbellThe Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

The man up there raged aloud in two languages, and with a sincerity in his fury that almost convince...

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It is a fact that the bitterest contradictions and the deadliest conflicts of the world are carried ...

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Tenderness is the repose of passion.

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Joseph JoubertThe Notebooks of Joseph Joubert

Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir......

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It is the most fun I’m ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. I mean, there’s nothing in th...

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When this reality, the one and only power that checks and disciplines man from within, vanishes beca...

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Let others think what they like: for me, the culmination of life consists of a pure and subtly drama...

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José Ortega y GassetOn Love: Aspects of a Single Theme

Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flat...

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I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being i...

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Mariac tells us about the books he's read, the painters he's liked, the plays he's seen. He finds hi...

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Sports should not become routine. It should be about passion.

The point is not to be the best, but to be the best you can be.

Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields. Some people love doing things they don't feel th...

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Whatever your aptitudes, the greatest source of achievement is passion. Aptitude matters, but passio...

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Ken RobinsonFinding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life

The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion ...

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Ken RobinsonThe Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Whether that's positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and ...

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What began with exuberance and passion always ended with terse accusations and hateful words, with r...

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Khaled HosseiniAnd the Mountains Echoed

But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creatio...

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I have met many minds able to store and translate a pregnantly large amount of information, yet they...

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Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you wan...

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I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopp...

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I will take your heart.I will take your soul out of your bodyAs though I were God.I will not be sati...

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Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and th...

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Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just a...

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There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what ...

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And I saw her as a sad thirtieth child of Valentine that fell, not as Lucifer rebelling against God,...

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Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's ...

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Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

The line between passionate and crazy can be a thin one.

She walks in beauty Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies And all that's best of dar...

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The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.

The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before...

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I've always had an affinity and a passion for cars and that whole car culture.

Already a congressman, to a mentor "I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well...

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There were so many different versions of him. It was countless versions of a song, and they were all...

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There is no better taste than this: someone else's laughter in your mouth.

Please kiss that girl a million times.

I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing that they weren't...

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It was her eyes and my eyes and I felt a surging sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing a...

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After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.

His quest was a wolf, and it starved. - Gansey

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion...

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Malcolm GladwellBlink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Hard world is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

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Malcolm GladwellOutliers: The Story of Success

To such an extent does passion manifest itself in us as a temporary and distinct character, which no...

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Bodily passion, which has been so unjustly decried, compels its victims to display every vestige tha...

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Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at grou...

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They are boiling with the pressured energy of explosive forces confined in a small space, and with t...

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All this will happen because people have neglected the basic lessons of Science, they have gone in f...

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Messy love is better than none.I guess. I'm no authorityon sane living.

This form of love is like the painof childbirth: so intenseit's hard to remember afterwards,

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The t...

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Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you o...

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If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master...

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Tom's whole being applauded this idea. It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circumstances...

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Mark TwainThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with ...

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