My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
Maya AngelouAbsence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La RochefoucauldSeek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.
Maya AngelouIt isn’t what you did in the past that will affect the present. It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.
Paulo CoelhoAnyone who seeks to destroy the passions, instead of controlling them, is trying to play the angel.
VoltaireWho is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin FranklinBy believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
Franz KafkaYes, in all my research the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.
Deepak ChopraThree passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand RussellBlues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
Christina AguileraMost people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar WildeCuriosity n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
Ambrose BierceIt is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
Christian Nestell Bovee