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"Live with it. You live with pleasure, don't you? Why don't you live with suffering completely? Can you live with it in the sense of not escaping from it? What takes place? Watch. The mind is very clear, sharp. It is faced with the fact. The very suffering transformed into passion is enormous. From that arises a mind that can never be hurt. Full stop. That is the secret."
"The creative mind plays with the object it loves."
"They 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."
"Music changed my life. I don't know who I would be without it. Don't ignore even the smallest glimmer of passion in your soul, run towards it with everything you have. It could change your life."
"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft."
"Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it."
"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed."
"My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes."
"Nelson Mandela was one of the most influential people in my life. He was my hero, my friend, and also a companion to me in our fight for the people and for world peace. Let us all continue his legacy with purpose and passion."
"We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... Millions will always remain poor."
"I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success."
"He who truly knows has no occasion to shout."
"What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world."
"It's very impossible to live by yesterday's standards and expect extraordinary results today. Live life with passion!"
"There's beauty in anger, and anger for me is a passion."
"I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it."
"We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?"
"A strange passion is moving in my head My heart has become a bird which searches in the sky. Every part of me goes in different directions. Is it really so that the one I love is Everywhere?"
"Tune out the naysayers, tune into your own courage, and take a bold step toward the passion-filled life you really want."
"As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do"
