Dependent Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after

— Alexander Pope

The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us.

— Simon Van Booy

Our passions are ourselves.

— Anatole France

The happiness in this life does not consist of being devoid of passion, but mastering them.

— Anonymous

Life has been reduced to temporal pursuits disconnected from all the other disciplines necessary for life to be meaningfully engaged.

— Ravi Zacharias

“The effectiveness of your life is not determined by the duration of your life”

— Sunday Adelaja

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it,…

— Marcel Proust

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.

— Sylvia Plath

So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it is necessarily…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

There are passions that it is not for man to choose.

— Nikolai Gogol

The passions do not die out; they burn out.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

One moment of gratification is not worth a lifetime of being unhappy.

— Anonymous