| We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. -- Cyril Connolly |
| Author:
Connolly, CyrilEra:
1903 |
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| All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. -- Aristotle |
| Author:
AristotleEra:
-384 |
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| Love is a passion which kindles honor into noble acts. -- John Dryden |
| Author:
Dryden, JohnEra:
1631 |
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| Purity engenders Wisdom, passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. -- Bhagavad Gita |
| Author:
Gita, BhagavadEra:
-400 |
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| Principle is a passion for truth. -- William Hazlitt |
| Author:
Hazlitt, WilliamEra:
1778 |
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| I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings--iT's All A Miracle. -- Arthur Rubinstein |
| Author:
Rubinstein, ArthurEra:
1887 |
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| The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. -- Edmund Burke |
| Author:
Burke, EdmundEra:
1729 |
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| Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realise the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself. -- Sivananda |
| Author:
SivanandaEra:
1887 |
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| The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. -- Mark Twain |
| Author:
Twain, MarkEra:
1835 |
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| Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author:
Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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| It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, with the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city, with the discords of families. -- Pythagoras |
| Author:
PythagorasEra:
-582 |
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