Faith Quote by Siri Hustvedt

“Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their life. —William James”

— Aleatha Romig

“In Varieties of Religious Experience, William James says that for an experience to be visionary or ecstatic it must be passive (that is, it…

— Lisa R. Spaar

“I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than those words which express thoughts rationally conceived”

— Natsume Soseki

“An author’s strong belief and enthusiasm will affect the writing of the book and often the publisher’s commitment to it.”

— Sterling Lord

“[...] passion is by no means the fuller life which it seems to be in the dreams of adolescence, but is on the contrary…

— Denis De Rougemont

“Thoughts which a man deliberately places in his own mind, and encourages with sympathy, and with which he mixes any one or more of…

— Napoleon Hill

“Passion can sometimes bring out qualities in a person that they never knew they possessed.”

— Lisa Desrochers

“He cared little for commonly experienced emotions, for everyday associations of ideas, now that the closing of his mind had grown more pronounced, and…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“When we do what we love, our whole being aligns. Passion gathers the scattered energies of the mind. The chatter subsides, the doubts quieten,…

— Donna Goddard

“Passion arises from the heart, and your heart's impulse is more likely to be closer to the truth than your mind's analysis.”

— Janet, Bray Attwood

“Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appear, it demolishes all…

— Paulo Coelho

“So soon as passion goes beyond instinct and becomes truly itself, it tends to self self-description, either in order to justify or intensify its…

— Denis de Rougemont