Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.
-- from The Sexual Side of Spirituality
Tags: sexuality passion spirituality metaphysics meeting-challenges
I am in love with you', I responded.
He laughed the most beguiling and gentle laugh.
'Of course you are,' he replied. 'I understand perfectly because I'm in love with myself. The fact that I'm not transfixed in front of the nearest mirror takes a great deal of self-control.'
It was my turn to laugh.
Tags: passion narcissism good-humor
Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you're capable of.
Christina WestoverTags: books passion writing writers censorship freedom-of-the-press christina-westover precipice artistic-freedom
I had only to remember that centuries before, men fell in battle for the daughter of Troy, that passions carried greater weight than decorum. It took so little to prove that human life and property are devastatingly temporary. All she had to do was lie down for a prince. They burned the city to the ground.
Brenna YovanoffTags: love passion war troy helen-of-troy
Cat, I'll let you in on a little secret. We don't all love our jobs every day. And doing something you have passion for doesn't make the work part of it any easier...It just makes you less likely to quit.
Kate JacobsTags: life passion persistence work career georgia knitting job
In his youth, he was electrified. The stars were moving in his bloodstream. He would not have been cowed by the customs of an earthly monarch. When he loved, it was with a heat and a desperation that he carried like a sword. He loved in the way that Greeks burned cities.
Brenna YovanoffTags: love devil passion youth demon greeks heroic
...she cried because prejudice outlives passion and because she was sentimentally patriotic.
Irène NémirovskyTags: passion patriotic prejudice
The obsession was gone. We liked each other, even loved each other. And our sex was still good, but the hunger was gone. Either it just wore out or we wore each other out. A passion like that pushes everything else out of its path. You can't be married and have jobs and children and work and write and have something like an emotional bubonic plague.
Stephen DobynsThey loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the "blaze of passion" often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds and the sky over their heads and the earth under their feet.
Boris PasternakPassion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.
François de La RochefoucauldTags: passion foolishness wisedom
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