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"I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their Temple and could gladly sacrifice my life for one great moment in history. And at the same time I always felt so helpless and incapable of expressing these ardent passions even by a word or a poem."
"Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn."
"If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?"
"Thus our own age is essentially one of understanding, and on the average, perhaps, more knowledgeable than any former generation, but it is without passion. Every one knows a great deal, we all know which way we ought to go and all the different ways we can go, but nobody is willing to move."
"Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to."
"War forgets peace. Peace forgives war. War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine. Our vital passions want war. Our psychic emotions desire peace."
"Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions."
"Passion pushes you to learn more, create more and to create better. Best of all, it's contagious."
"I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do."
"Purpose is the most powerful motivator in the world. The secret of passion truly is purpose."
"With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease -- because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses."
"Seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!"
"Nearness to God is common to us all, Because we're all created and sustained by God, But only the authentically noble Possess and live that nearness That's a constant upswelling passion of love."
"My longing for you keeps me in this moment My passion gives me courage"
"One of the days we unpack finding out how your kids are wired, what kind of intelligence has God given them, how do they give and receive love, what the passions of their life, how does their birth order and their gender affect them because all of those things are part of the tapestry that God is weaving together to use each of our children for His glory."
"A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger."
"Hate and love are reciprocal passions."
"It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death."
"The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself."
"Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation."
