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"Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise."

Janet Morris, Chris Morris

Fate, Passion, Nature, Destiny, Reproduction
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A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

Thomas Fuller M.D.

Passion
3

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Carl Jung

Passion
4

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Nicolas Chamfort

Passion
5

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Voltaire

Passion
6

As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

Ezra Pound

Passion
7

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Denis Waitley

Passion
8

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music -- the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Miller

Passion
9

Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Henry David Thoreau

Passion
10

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Earl Nightingale

Passion
11

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Cicero

Passion
12

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Passion
13

I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.

John Wooden

Passion
14

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Passion
15

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

George Burns

Passion
16

If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Passion
17

In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron

Passion
18

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Passion
19

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Passion
20

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

Oliver Goldsmith

Passion
21

Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

Desiderius Erasmus

Passion
22

Live with passion!

Tony Robbins

Passion
23

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Passion
24

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Thomas Browne

Passion
25

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Bette Davis

Passion
26

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Blaise Pascal

Passion
27

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

Denis Diderot

Passion
28

Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Passion
29

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Alexander Pope

Passion
30

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.

Passion
31

Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.

George Eliot

Passion
32

Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Passion
33

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

Robert South

Passion
34

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Tony Robbins

Passion
35

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

William Penn

Passion
36

Passion is the trigger of success.

Passion
37

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Honoré de Balzac

Passion
38

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Passion
39

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Jean Paul

Passion
40

Passions are the gales of life.

Alexander Pope

Passion
41

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Passion
42

Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.

George Meredith

Passion
43

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passion
44

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Passion
45

She is so totally absorbed in a vocation -- both a gift and a mastering passion -- that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.

George Will

Passion
46

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Passion
47

The happiness in this life does not consist of being devoid of passion, but mastering them.

Passion
48

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Passion
49

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Passion
50

The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.

Charles M. Schwab

Passion
51

The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Alexander Pope

Passion
52

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Eric Hoffer

Passion
53

There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

Tony Robbins

Passion
54

There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?

George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron

Passion
55

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Denis Diderot

Passion
56

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Marquis de Sade

Passion
57

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

Passion
58

To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.

Roland Barthes

Passion
59

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Passion
60

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Passion
61

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Søren Kierkegaard

Passion
62

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.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Passion
63

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

Alexander Herzen

Passion
64

“It’s all right. Things as they once were will never be again, but it’s all right.”

Janet Morris

Love, Passion, Commitment, Tragedy, Obsession

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"Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise."

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music -- the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

Live with passion!

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

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.

Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.

Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

Passion is the trigger of success.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Passions are the gales of life.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

She is so totally absorbed in a vocation -- both a gift and a mastering passion -- that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

The happiness in this life does not consist of being devoid of passion, but mastering them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.

The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

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.

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

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.

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

“It’s all right. Things as they once were will never be again, but it’s all right.”