Quotes
Quotes about Passion
The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire.
In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love.
A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.
If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes. The modern separation of enlightenment and virtue, of thought and conscience, of the intellectual aristocracy from the honest and common crowd is the greatest danger that can threaten liberty.
Bowels of compassion.
The urge to undress breeds passion in unexpected places
Love took new forms, that was all. Forms like compassion
Compassion? Did that seem the proper balm wherewith to anoint his soul's bruises?
Compassion, pity: are they not much the same What right have I to bestow pity?
The lust for comfort murders the passions of the soul.
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Absence diminishes commonplace passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.
It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures.
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardour of its passion, but by its strength and constancy.
There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
