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

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  God, Men, Reason

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 21, 1799.

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• There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. Drink all your passion, and be a disgrace. Close both eyes to see with the other eye.

  Rumi

  Peace, Eye, Community

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.30, Penguin UK

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• To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.

  Anita Roddick

  Inspirational, Success, Running

  Anita Roddick (1994). “Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop”, Three Rivers Press

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• Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Men, Principles, Action

  Claude Adrien Helvétius (1777). “A Treatise on Man, His Intellectual Faculties and His Education: A Posthumous Work of M. Helvetius. Translated from the French, with Additional Notes, by W. Hooper, ...”, p.43

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• Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.

  Ovid

  Way, Reason, One Way

  Ovid (1994). “Metamorphoses: books I-VIII”

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• The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Happiness, Men, Intellectual

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  Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Perfection, Doe

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 1”, p.484, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Beer, Use

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• I'm extremely grateful that I discovered my passion. I love movies. I love to watch them, I love to make them.

  George Lucas

  Grateful, Movie Love, Watches

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• I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.20, Princeton University Press

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• The purpose of all my photos is to capture the power of nature and convey it in a way that inspires someone to feel passionate and connected to the image.

  Peter Lik

  Inspirational, Photography, Nature

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• We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.

  Kavita Ramdas

  Education, Strong Women, Humble

  "'Having it all doesn't mean doing it all': Women's grad advice to women" by Eun Kyung Kim, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• Be passionate and be involved in what you believe in, and do it as thoroughly and honestly and fearlessly as you can.

  Marie Colvin

  Inspirational, Honesty, Believe

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• I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth.

  Lisette Model

  Love, Photography, Truth

  Elisabeth Sussman, Lisette Model (2001). “Lisette Model”, Phaidon Press

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• He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Motive, Principal

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• Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it.

  Ernie Banks

  Sports

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• Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant, superbly contemptuous of all that is not itself, and, as they very definition of passion implies the impulse to freedom, it has a might intimidiating power. It contains a challenge. It contains an unspeakable hope.

  James A. Baldwin

  Challenges, Friendly, Arrogant

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• Passion is the genesis of genius.

  Tony Robbins

  Genius, Action, Genesis

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• Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'

  Sue Halpern

  Work, Exclusive, Series

  Sue Halpern (2011). “Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly”, p.121, Vintage

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• I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

  Willem de Kooning

  Art, Paint

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

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Anger, Suffering, Fit

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.

  John Lennon

  Change, Wisdom, Love Yourself

  "Celebrating John Lennon’s Birthday in His Own Inspiring Words" by Jeryl Brunner, parade.com. October 09, 2014.

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• I prithee gentle friend,
  Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway
  In this uncivil and unjust extent
  Against thy peace.

  William Shakespeare

  Listening, Unjust, Gentle

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• Knowledge is the driving force that puts creative passion to work.

  Maurice Sendak

  Creative, Driving, Force

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• We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

  Che Guevara

  Life, Death, Courage

  "Wise Guys: Brilliant Thoughts and Big Talk from Real Men". Book by Allan Zullo, p. 36, 2005.

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