"Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at either extreme."
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"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."
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"Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken."
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"Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory."
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"Friends now fast sworn, Whose double bosoms seems to wear one heart, Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal and exercise Are still together, who twin, as 'twere, in love, Unseparable, shall within this hour, On a dissension of a doit, break out To bitterest enmity; so fellest foes, Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep To take the one the other, by some chance, Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends And interjoin their issues."
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"Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room."
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"The highest challenge inside organizations is to enable each person to contribute his or her unique talents and passion to accomplish the organization's purpose."
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"The universal elements are integrity, vision, discipline, passion, governed by conscience. Conscience has been educated through studying and pondering the universal, timeless principles of all six major world religions."
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"I take a massage each week. This isn't an indulgence, it's an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health."
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"The important point is to not just follow your passion but something larger than yourself."
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"The devil comes in many guises-anger in the form of justice-passion in the form of duty. When it first comes, the man knows and then he forgets. Just as your pleaders' conscience; at first they know it is all Badmashi (roguery), then it is duty to their clients; at last they get hardened."
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"Your task? To work with all the passion of your being to acquire an inner light."
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"Passion and desire bind your Heart. Remove the locks. Become a key, become a key . . ."
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"The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid, and trapped, you cannot experience liberation."
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"The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action."
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"The secret to finding your passion is to bring it to everything you do. --Marie Forleo (Yes, even doing the laundry!)"
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"As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism."
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"Weak minds make treaties with the passions they cannot overcome, and try to purchase happiness at the expense of principle; but the resolute will of a strong man scorns such means, and struggles nobly with his foe to achieve great deeds."
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"The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason."
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"Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder."
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