passion quotes

“All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.”

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

“It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.”

“Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.”

“Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.”

“Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.”

“In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.”

“The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music. ”

“The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.”

“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.”

“The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.”

“All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. ”

“Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.”

“For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth. ”

“There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.”

“From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.”

“He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. ”

“It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.”

“As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.”

“Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love. ”

“The dew of compassion is a tear.”

“Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people. ”

“Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms. ”

“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”

“Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.”

“Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.”

“All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.”

“If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.”

“If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.”

“Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs. ”