In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.
As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.
Make a commitment to having fun. See your best friends and make time for your hobbies and passions.
Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines.
Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.
Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.
This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation; dangerous passions of pride, hatred, and selfishness are enthroned in our lives; and men do reverence before false gods of nationalism and materialism. The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.
Our true passions are selfish.
Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.
I love sharing my passions.
Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous.
Woman's mind Oft' shifts her passions, like th'inconstant wind; Sudden she rages, like the troubled main, Now sinks the storm, and all is calm again.
Our passions may be compared to certain slaves--the more severity we show them, the better they obey us.
The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity's own disordered passions, against every kind of selfishness, against attempts to oppress others, against every type of hatred and violence.
Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason.
My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough. . . but it's enough.
The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms.