"Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur."
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"If you’re not passionate about what you’re doing, you need to stop doing it. You aren’t living your truth."
"And me, I know that there is a god. Cause I know who god is."
"I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork."
"The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and it is in this sense of violent rigour and extreme condensation of scenic elements that the cruelty on which it is based must be understood. This cruelty, which will be bloody when necessary but not systematically so, can thus be identified with a kind of severe moral purity which is not afraid to pay life the price it must be paid."
"When you're really passionate, you're going to grab hold of every rope you see, and wrap them around your arms and legs to claw your way out. And that's the way I've felt in my life."
"The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it."
"Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp."
"This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten."
"If you have not learned to be a passionate lover, do not count your life as lived. On the day of reckoning, it will not be counted."
"It's all about who you surround yourself with. You have to be comfortable with yourself and have friends who accept you for who you are. Also, do something that you're passionate about. When you find out what you're good at and you do it, that gives you confidence."
"I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate."
"The world makes room for passionate people."
"My absolute favorite kind of people in the world are people that are passionate about something."
"As you find your soul-reservoir of peace, less and less controversy will be able to afflict your life."
"You want to do things you’re passionate about but also are useful to other people."
"When we’re passionate about something, we innovate, create, and continue on with our dreams."
"I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into a passionate pacifist and anti-militarist. I am against any nationalism, even in the guise of mere patriotism. Privileges based on position and property have always seemed to me unjust and pernicious, as did any exaggerated personality cult."
"There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!"
"You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world."