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"I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion."
"Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast."
"It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."
"Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God."
"The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion."
"A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing."
"To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred."
"Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart."
"Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way."
"There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure; from them I derive new life."
"I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity."
"To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone."
"Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them."
"Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you."
"But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion."
"The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage."
"The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations. The least satisfying of desires. A nameless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man. You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess."
"In carrying out e-commerce, the most important thing is to keep doing what you are doing right now with passion, to keep it up."
"Someone with less passion and talent and poorer content can totally beat you if they're willing to work longer and harder than you are. Hustle is it."
"From the passions arise worry, and from worry arises fear. Away with the passions, and no fear, no worry."
