I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
I see her as one great stampede of lips directed at the nearest derriere.
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.
I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.
One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
The men of sense, the idols of the shallow, are very inferior to the men of passions. It is the strong passions which, rescuing us from sloth, impart to us that continuous and earnest attention necessary to great intellectual efforts.
You have to have passion for anything you do. Whether it's sports, whether it's music, whether you want to be Mother Theresa, you have to have passion for what it is you do, or what's the point in getting up in the morning and getting out of bed?
When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.
Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men.
