Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions.. — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
You wanted to know my passions? Allow me to introduce them to you. — Jacquelyn Frank Copy Share Image
“Vexed I am Of late with passions of some difference, Conceptions only proper to myself, Which gives some soil, perhaps, to my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Create. Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. But for the pure joy of creating something and… — Ernest Barbaric Copy Share Image
Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people. — Scott Weiss Copy Share Image
Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your… — Joshua Lederberg Copy Share Image
These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust. — Virgil Copy Share Image
Sometime I just lost my passions then I lost my temper, but I try hard to take a deep breath. Over and… — Debora Yaory Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust; and music, even… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
“A Human Face I love to view and trace the passions of the soul. On it the spirit writes anew each thought… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The art of governing [focusing] the passions is more useful, and more important, than many things in the search and pursuit of… — John Jortin Copy Share Image
The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I would love to act for the rest of my life, but I also know that it could be taken away in… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
“There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Politeness is okay, but it gets old and boring. You want to attack life with a passion, not a politeness, you want… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
As countless as grains of sand by the sea are human passions, and they all differ; all of them, vile or lofty,… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“If the men were without passions, it would be forgivable to see Machiavel try to give some to them; he would be… — Frederick the Great Copy Share Image
“It takes courage and strength to be sensitive to things and even more strength and courage to own up to it or… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
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