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"The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious."
"If you don't have a passion, you'll give up."
"For some people, fame kills it and becomes more important than the music or the performance. But for me fame is like rocket fuel. The more my fans like what I'm doing, the more I want to give back to them. And my passion is so strong I can't sleep - I haven'tslept for three days."
"True men" ... are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions arise like the four seasons, in harmony with the ten thousand creatures, and no one knows their limits."
"Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."
"Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes."
"That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion."
"Man is a marvelous curiosity...he thinks he is the Creator's pet...he even believes the Creator loves him; has passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks he listens. Isn't it a quaint idea."
"There is no plan B for passion"
"Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care."
"Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last."
"It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country"
"The passions are the voice of the body."
"All great achievements have one thing in common - people with a passion to succeed"
"If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger - something that matters."
"Since I'm a mother and a wife, I have to have passion or the frustration would win out. But I love managing people. The product is second to managing the people. And marketing to consumers is so challenging because it is evolving constantly."
"Follow your passion. Be yourself, but check yourself before you wreck yourself."
"Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions."
"We believe people with passion can change the world for the better. That's what we believe. And we believe that those people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that actually do."
"Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose."
