Quotes for All
Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced only in freedom and never as a result of compulsion. Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a standing in, not a falling for. In the most general way, the … Read more
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Ella Fitzgerald
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. Ella Fitzgerald
One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested. E. M. Forster
There is always some madness in love. Friedrich Nietzsche
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. Friedrich Nietzsche
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Chase your passion, not your pension. Denis Waitley
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. Denis Diderot
To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one’s being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession. Denis de Rougemont