“We are nothing without passion.”
“The right kind of tired is satisfying and energetic all at once.”
“If the world doesn t tell you why you re born, tell the world why you re born. Live like a legend or die like one.”
“High quality skills compromise practicality and eventual loss of grounds.”
“If necessity is the mother of all invention, boredom has to be an aunt of all invention. A bored man tries everything, even if he fails a thousand times.”
“Passion is...it s fire. And fire is great, man. But we re made of water. Water is how we keep living. Water is what we need to survive.”
“Passion creates, addiction consumes.”
“A soulmate will never leave you. They will always be apart of your life until one day the chance is given for them to become your life. It is then you will become one.”
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.”
“But it was the stupidity of passion, which would rather have nothing than a little.”
“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. … Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.”
“His gaze, though almost improper, was the most sensual thing he could have done at the moment, and it jolted her heart into a strange rhythm, leaving her unable to speak.”
“She spun away from him and raced into the house toward her room to avoid an uncomfortable discussion. And as she flopped back on her bed and stared at the ceiling, she finally confronted the awful, alarming, dreadful, and entirely horrifying possibility that she had been rejecting all day. Though she could hardly accept it, she could no longer deny it. She was pretty sure Mr. Rodman was the King of Wands.”
“I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.) --from Mad Girl s Love Song: A Villanelle , written 1954”
“You grow (and thrive!) by doing what excites you and what scares you everyday, not by trying to find your passion.”
“Sensual love is no ordinary love. Got to go deep to find it.”
“Good life is not a sprint. It’s an exerting marathon of purpose, passion, patience and perseverance. It’s the road where faith and hard work meet. It is an unusual love adventure between success and failure. It is where truth is a belt and integrity a shield. It is knowing your lane, staying on your lane and running your own race. It’s a road loathed and less traveled by most men.”