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• It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Love, Kissing, Giving

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (Volume I)". Book by Christian Nestell Bovee, 1862.

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• The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.

  Li Ka-shing

  Country, Encouragement, Integrity

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• A Creator is vision-focused and passion-motivated. To really live into your Creator self, you are called to do the inner work necessary to find your own sense of purpose-whatever touches your heart and holds meaning for you.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Heart, Self, Focus

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• Man is only great when he acts from passion.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Wise, Wisdom, Intelligent

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5018, Delphi Classics

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• What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Football, Desire, Engines

  "The Gardener" by Dana Goodyear, www.newyorker.com. September 1, 2003.

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• What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Reflection, Age

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• If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.

  David Hockney

  Beautiful, Thinking, Alive

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• You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.

  Mort Walker

  Nice, Taught, Outrage

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• Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist.

  Clarice Cliff

  Fun, Artist, Doe

  Pasadena Evening Post, 1931.

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• It takes practice to hear your true desires. Your passion will often come as a whisper or serendipitous event that reminds you of what's important and what makes you happy.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Motivational, Practice, Important

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• There is no plan B for passion

  Chris Gardner

  Plan B, Plans

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• Spirit is passionate; without passion no one can be truly spiritual.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Passionate, Spirit

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• Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Perseverance

  "Speed, Simplicity, Self-Confidence". Interview with Noel Tichy and Ram Charan, hbr.org. September/October 1989.

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• A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Mountain, Genuine, Streams

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.42

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• The practice of meditation is a way of continuing one's confusion, chaos, aggression, and passion—but working with it, seeing it from the enlightened point of view.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Views, Practice, Confusion

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Two: The Path Is the Goal; Training the Mind; Glimpses of Abhidharma; Glimpses of Shu nyata; Glimpses of Mahayana; Selected Writings”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

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• If we turn away from our sexual passion, then we freeze and beings are harmed. If we grab it, then we are burned and beings are harmed. But if we just stay close to it, walk around it, always in touch with the fact that we are sexual beings, neither identifying with nor distancing ourselves from our sexuality, then we gradually become intimate with it.

  Reb Anderson

  Sex, Facts, Intimate

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• Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Feelings, Looks, Moments

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• What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.

  John Boorman

  Sex, Self, Expression

  "Projections: A Forum for Film Makers, Volume 1". Book edited by John Boorman and Walter Donohue, 1992.

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• There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?

  Lord Byron

  Life, Earthquakes, Fever

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.338, Routledge

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• Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Life, Happiness, New Beginnings

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• A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Thoughtful, Men

  Errinerungen, Tr"ume, Gedanken (Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 1962) ch. 9

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• To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.

  Roland Barthes

  Hiding Something, Essence, Feelings

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• Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

  Jean Paul

  Observation, Conclusion

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• Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

  Aldous Huxley

  Civilization, Settings, Arrangements

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his heart is in his work; and he will do twice as much of it with less fatigue. The latter performs a little imperfectly, looks at it in disgust, turns from it, and imagines himself exceedingly tired. The little he has done, comes to nothing, for want of finishing.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Tired, Heart

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.162, Penguin

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