176 Quotes About Passions

Fiercely guard the passions igniting your heart, so that your flames reach the highest ceilings of success without the eyes of envy.

Virtues are formed by prayer.Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy.Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.

Most of those who have written about the Affects, and men’s way of living, seem to treat, not of natural things, which follow the common laws of nature, but of things that are outside nature. Indeed they seem to conceive man in nature as a dominion within a dominion. For they believe that man disturbs, rather than follows, the order of nature, that he has absolute power over his actions, and that he is determined only by himself.

He left her and looked round for his glass again. Meanwhile, he said to himself in a quoting voice: "We are minor in everything but our passions.""Wherever did you read that?""Nowhere: I woke up and heard myself saying it, one night.""How pompous you were in the night. I'm so glad I was asleep.

Au fost pasiunile mele, flăcări pe un bloc de gheaţă, încercări disperate de a ieşi din imobilitate, din cleştele ezitărilor.

Unlike Confucius, Madison maintained that people have a limited capacity to control their passions themselves and act virtuously when their individual interests conflict with others.

When we make a habit of acting on the interests arising out of our authentic passions, our enthusiasm can open doors before we even realize the potential that lies beyond them.

Wild fires blaze within her soul,there's where all her passions rise from...

Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.