Burned Quote by Gautama Buddha

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.

— Paul Newman

It's a beautiful thing to be that committed to something that you get so much joy from, but it is like a sick addiction,…

— Scott Weiland

We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man's afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source…

— Denis Diderot

The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.

— Thomas Hobbes

The difference between passion and addiction is that between a divine spark and a flame that incinerates.

— Gabor Mate

“The only good thing for men therefore is to be diverted from thinking of what they are, either by some occupation which takes their…

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Nikolai Gogol

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

— David Hume

A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the…

— Jack Kerouac

A man who knows how to mix pleasures with business is never entirely possessed by them; he either quits or resumes them at his…

— Charles de Saint-Evremond

There is another serious thing to which many young men become addicted. This is anger. With the least provocation they explode into tantrums of…

— Gordon B. Hinckley