{"topic":"passion","quotes":[{"quote":"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.","author":"Alfred Lord Tennyson"},{"quote":"My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.","author":"Bette Davis"},{"quote":"He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.","author":"Cicero"},{"quote":"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.","author":"D. H. Lawrence"},{"quote":"Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.","author":"Denis Diderot"},{"quote":"The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.","author":"Dorothy L. Sayers"},{"quote":"Judgement, not passion should prevail.","author":"Epicharmus"},{"quote":"Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.","author":"Georg Wilhelm"},{"quote":"Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.","author":"Ice T"},{"quote":"Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.","author":"Luisa Sigea"},{"quote":"Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!","author":"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus"},{"quote":"When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.","author":"Margery Allingham"},{"quote":"I had learnt to seek intensity�more of life, a concentrated sense of life.","author":"Nina Berberova"},{"quote":"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.","author":"Oprah Winfrey"},{"quote":"I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.","author":"Oprah Winfrey"},{"quote":"You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.","author":"Rebecca West"},{"quote":"You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more.","author":"Robert Sternberg"},{"quote":"Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers.","author":"Salma Hayek"},{"quote":"It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.","author":"Saul Bellow"},{"quote":"Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.","author":"Stanley Kunitz"},{"quote":"There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.","author":"Sue Halpern"},{"quote":"It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted."},{"quote":"What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire."},{"quote":"Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'"}]}