Daily
Thoughts to assist in your Daily Struggle for Intensity |
1 | ''All
human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature,
compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.'' - Aristotle |
2 | ''Three
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 Russell |
3 | ''No passion
so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning
as fear.'' - Edmund Burke |
4 | ''Do it
no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable.
If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's
their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do
it.'' - Mario Andretti |
5 | ''The true
end of tragedy is to purify the passions.'' - Aristotle |
6 | ''Infinite
passion, and the pain / Of finite hearts that yearn.'' - Robert Browning |
7 | ''The passion
for destruction is also a creative passion.'' - Mikhail Bakunin |
8 | ''It's the
talent and the passion that count in success.'' - Ingrid Bergman |
9 | ''Nothing
great in the world has been accomplished without passion.'' - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
10 | ''Probably
the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the
eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet
begun.'' - Thomas Arnold |
11 | ''It is
with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants,
but bad masters.'' - Sir Roger L'Estrange |
12 | ''The
overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to
his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms
life without resentment." |
13 | ''Absence
diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows
out candles and fans fire.'' - François Duc de La Rochefoucauld |
14 | ''The passions
of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without
constraint.'' - Alexander Hamilton |
15 | ''All thoughts,
all passions, all delights. - Whatever stirs this mortal frame - All are but ministers of Love. - And feed his sacred flame.'' - Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
16 | ''Man is
only truly great when he acts from the passions.'' - Benjamin Disraeli |
17 | ''The man
who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.'' - Cyril Connolly |
18 | ''Principle
is a passion for truth.'' - William Hazlitt |
19 | ''The essential
[conditions] of everything you do . . . must be choice, love, passion.'' - Nadia Boulanger |
20 | ''It is
difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.'' - Caius Valerius Catullus |
21 | ''One declaims
endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to
them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.'' - Denis Diderot |
22 | ''The more
passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy.'' - Charlotte-Catherine |
23 | ''Find something
you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.'' - Julia Child |
24 | ''I find
that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.'' - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
25 | ''Knowledge
of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.'' - Benjamin Disraeli |
26 | ''Passion,
though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.'' - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
27 | ''There
is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of
life.'' - Federico Fellini |
28 | ''We are
told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems
that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own
talents.'' - Eric Hoffer |
29 | ''Indulge
not thyself in the passion of Anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine
own breast, or murder thy friend.'' - Akhenaton |
30 | ''If passion
drives you, let reason hold the reins.'' - Benjamin Franklin |
31 | ''Very great
achievements are brought about by passion and emotion rather than by practice,
training, knowledge.'' - Frederick Philip Grove |
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