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“Our thoughts shape us. We become our obsessions. Our thoughts can enslave us or save us.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“When the wolf howls and the moon dims
hope fades with the waning light.
Evil lurks at every turn as shadows waltz
across the ebony night.
Behold the midnight hour
where all of reason takes flight.”
― Grace Willows

“Some people need a super hero to save them, but I am my own super hero. All I need is myself, my strengths and the fiery passions in my heart to overcome the obstacles in my life.”
― Imania Margria

“The difficulty is that, so long as unreason prevails, a solution of our troubles can only be reached by chance; for while reason, being impersonal, makes universal co-operation possible, unreason, since it represents private passions, makes strife inevitable. It is for this reason that rationality, in the sense of an appeal to a universal and impersonal standard of truth, is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species.”
― Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

“Sometimes you just have to find something to keep your body grounded, your mind flexible, and your heart open.”
― Imania Margria

“If you have two or three real passions, don't feel like you have to pick and choose between them. Don't discard. Keep all your passions in your life.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“If we throw blankets over our children's dreams, we darken their world and extinguish their desire to live.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Capture your youth, while you can.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Levin had often noticed in discussion between the most intelligent people that after enormous efforts, and endless logical subtleties and talk, the disputants finally became aware that what they had been at such pains to prove to one another had long ago, from the beginning of the argument, been known to both, but that they liked different things, and would not define what they liked for fear of its being attacked. He had often had the experience of suddenly in the middle of a discussion grasping what it was the other liked and at once liking it too, and immediately he found himself agreeing, and then all arguments fell away useless. Sometimes the reverse happened: he at last expressed what he liked himself, which he had been arguing to defend and, chancing to express it well and genuinely, had found the person he was disputing with suddenly agree.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“The sound was like a gentle breeze of joy on a warm summer day. It wrapped around his senses and his heart. That was the moment, and he knew he’d be telling her about it fifty years from now when she asked him when it was that he knew that he loved her.”
― Grace Willows

“To be happy in life, develop at least four hobbies: one to bring you money, one to keep you healthy, one to bring you joy, and one to bring you peace.”
― Stan Jacobs, The Dusk And Dawn Master: A Practical Guide to Transforming Evening and Morning Habits, Achieving Better Sleep, and Mastering Your Life

“I have been thinking that the social moulds civilisation fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a calm wedded life with my counterpart of that name. But I am not really Mrs. Richard Phillotson, but a woman tossed about, all alone, with aberrant passions, and unaccountable antipathies....”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“Most of those who have written about the Affects, and men’s way of living, seem to treat, not of natural things, which follow the common laws of nature, but of things that are outside nature. Indeed they seem to conceive man in nature as a dominion within a dominion. For they believe that man disturbs, rather than follows, the order of nature, that he has absolute power over his actions, and that he is determined only by himself.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Complete Works

“I shall treat the nature and power of the Affects, and the power of the Mind over them, by the same Method by which, in the preceding parts, I treated God and the Mind, and I shall consider human actions and appetites just as if it were a Question of lines, planes, and bodies.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Complete Works

“God decided that this time in history was perfect for you to glorify Him and make an eternal difference. So God gave you unique gifts, talents, passions, and experiences to propel you into your life purpose.”
― Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

“A man does not know the full depth of his thoughts till he picks up a pen and writes;
Or till he picks up a bottle and drinks;
Both have roughly the same amount of intoxicating influence;
With the former, they sometimes come out refined;
With the latter, they always come out unscripted;
Pick your poison wisely,
Spill your innards sparingly”
― Eniitan Akinola

“Our parents encouraged us to follow our dreams and told us that if we wanted to do something, we could do it. And, they said, if we did it the Lord's way, for the right reasons, we would be successful. Not that we would win every game or be wealthy, but that we would be successful in God's eyes if we did the things that glorify Him.”
― Tony Dungy, Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices & Priorities of a Winning Life

“Silences of my days
Silences of my wanderings
Silences of my nights
Silences of my loneliness

Silences of my work
Silences of my insanity
Silences of my dreams
Silences of my craziness


Silences of my passions
Silences of my reading
Silences of my obsessions
Silences of my writing


Silences of my thoughts
Silences of my pondering
Silences of my emotions
Silences of my aching

Silences of my stares
Silences of my pining
Silences of my feelings
Silences of my longing

Silences where I truly live
My Silences
Leave me to my silences...”
― Avijeet Das

“Creativity adds signature or aesthetic that elevates passion to purpose and fancy to enchantment.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Valley: Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence

“Believe in your dreams. Your passion will show you the way”
― Mani S. Sivasubramanian, The Icedrop

“Passions come like a smallpox and disfigure this original beauty.”
― Joubert

“Qui aurait jamais cru que quelques lettres écrites là en grec maladroit libéreraient l'étincelle qui allumerait l'amorce foudroyante, celle qui électriserait ce port endormi dans le désert du delta, troublerait et redresserait une ville entière, ranimerait les sentiments, les passions, les illusions, les jalousies, les envies, la haine et les représailles, déclenchées en un seul jour, dans ce coin oublié du monde, la tempête des passions stagnantes, endormies au fond de l’âme humaine ?”
― Jean Bart, Europolis

“Our strengths are built not with our words but with our actions,
Our fears are faced through those actions,
Our lives are shaped by these experiences
and our experiences are driven by our passions.
Where is your heart taking you...”
― Catherine Louise Birmingham

“Unlike Confucius, Madison maintained that people have a limited capacity to control their passions themselves and act virtuously when their individual interests conflict with others.”
― Patrick Mendis, Peaceful War: How the Chinese Dream and the American Destiny Create a New Pacific World Order

“If I scan the expanse of my heart and find it empty of everything except emptiness, it is because I ‘pouredâ€� the whole of my passion into something other than God. And anything other than God will always be too ‘poorâ€� to be able to ‘pourâ€� back anything that can fill that kind of emptiness.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“My goals exceed the reach of my energies, but my God exceeds the reach of my goals.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The gift is a grace of God.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Mevr. Cadzand feared for her son who, with his responsive nature, as sensitive as a hothouse plant, was more exposed. Fortunately religion is a means of protection, of diverting energies into other channels. Hans's mother was glad that they had cultivated his piety at the college and that she herself, with altars in the month of Mary, novenas, candles lit, rosaries recited and pilgrimages made, had further developed this faith, which keeps men safe through the fear of Hell.”
― Georges Rodenbach, Hans Cadzand's Vocation & Other Stories

“Non sopporterei la vita senza passione per la vita.”
― Alessandro D'Avenia, L'arte di essere fragili: Come Leopardi può salvarti la vita

“Noi non possiamo essere imparziali. Possiamo essere soltanto intellettualmente onesti: cioè renderci conto delle nostre passioni, tenerci in guardia contro di esse e mettere in guardia i nostri lettori contro i pericoli della nostra parzialità. L’imparzialità è un sogno, la probità è un dovere.”
― Gaetano Salvemini