~ Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost. ~
~ I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived ~
~ What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. ~
~ Passion requires focused direction, and that direction must come from three other areas: your purpose, your talents, and your needs. ~
~ Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow... Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead. ~
~ Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place. ~
~ The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy. ~
~ Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. ~
~ But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose. ~
~ It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed
and think themselves superior to. ~
~ There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life. ~
~ Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. ~