Tom Robbins Quotes About Passion

Quotes about: Passion

• The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.

  Tom Robbins

  Running, Food, Passion

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.1, Bantam

• If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill-take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edges of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic.

  Tom Robbins

  Art, Peace, Passion

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.255, Bantam

• The difference between love and logic is that in the eyes of a lover, a toad can be a prince, whereas in the analysis of a logistician, the lover would have to prove that the toad was a prince, an enterprise destined to dull the shine of many a passion.

  Tom Robbins

  Breakup, Passion, Eye

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.161, Bantam

• In the end what will prevail is your passion not your tale, for love is the Holy Grail.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Passion, Holy Grail

  Tom Robbins (2005). “Villa Incognito”, p.235, Bantam

• Would you complain because a beautiful sunset doesn't have a future or a shooting star a payoff? And why should romance 'lead anywhere'? Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passion is the woods.

  Tom Robbins

  Beautiful, Stars, Passion

• To one degree or another, everybody is connected to the Mystery, and everybody secretly yearns to expand the connection. That requires expanding the soul. These things can enlarge the soul: laughter, danger, imagination, meditation, wild nature, passion, compassion, psychedelics, beauty, iconoclasm, and driving around in the rain with the top down. These things can diminish it: fear, bitterness, blandness, trendiness, egotism, violence, corruption, ignorance, grasping, shining, and eating ketchup on cottage cheese.

  Tom Robbins

  Laughter, Rain, Ignorance

• Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.

  Tom Robbins

  Life Changing, Passion, People

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.147, Bantam

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