In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not...

God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.

Be thankful for all you gain. Be thankful for what you lose, too. Find a reason each day to celebrate your life.

The Lover ReconsidersWait… You. Come hither come closer come here,shrug and wriggle your way out of those clothes, shed them like baby teeth, like snakeskin, like feathers from the molt of a phoenixcome here let...

What I have learnt is that it is important to pursue your passion more than your legacy; if you have a passion with a purpose, then everything else fits in.

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

When you’re passionate about something, you don’t need coffee or an energy drink to get you moving.

In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there is something of everything; there is bravery, youth, honor, enthusiasm, the ideal, conviction, the eager fury of the gamester, and above all, intervals...

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.

Only wild cannot be tamed and I have been untamable.

I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking ‘What have I achieved?’ rather than ‘What have I enjoyed?’ I’ve been writing about a subject I love as long as I...

Follow your own passion – not your parents’, not your teachers’ – yours.

Figure out your passion. What floats your boat, rings your bell, lights your tree? A life without passion is possible, but not desirable. Have you really lived at all if you have not lived with...

You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born.

The thing I got to thinking about,’ he said, ‘is–what are the conditions that lead to larger portions of society being generous, humble, and selfless? While we have the conditions for economic opportunity here–and that...

You are blowing my mind again

What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.

if it was meant to be, it will be”, is a pacifying, yet harmful quote, that many spiritualists use to soften the blow of anger. God is not passive. He is relentless, and he will...

He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.– from The Sexual Side of Spirituality

Just keep being true to yourself, if you’re passionate about something go for it. Don’t sacrifice anything, just have fun.

Modelling wasn’t a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.

I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion.

This truth on the love of God, origin, meaning and end of the universe and of history was revealed by Jesus Christ, with his word and with his life, especially in his passion, death and...

Procrastinating to embark on your passion is a risky business, because tomorrow may never come!

Politeness is okay, but it gets old and boring. You want to attack life with a passion, not a politeness, you want people to think about you and remember you and say “she is so...

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are...

To lust for something is desire turned selfish and gone mad. To embrace God’s passion is desire turned selfless and gone mindful.

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that’s never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

I stood in front of him, frustratedly imagining his naked muscular chest, and wanting his hot cock to spear me. My nipples were aroused, feeling as hard and long as coat hooks. They prodded fiercely...

Perfection, in the form of a flawless stream of words delivered with cool composure, is never as persuasive as realness. An impassioned but imperfect speech, which shows you care too much to hide flaws, is...

In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before...

Passion is all but soft, it’s not tender, it’s violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

I run to the high mountainsI pour my heart out to the skiesI sing of the summer songWhile the sky above dance in the yellow light.The cool breeze fools the sun aboveTakes a run, wins...

My grandmother was a chemist. She worked at the Banting Institute in Toronto, and at 44 she died of stomach cancer. I never met my grandmother, but I carry on her name – her exact...

At our age, surely there are better things to sustain us, to sustain a marriage, than the brief flame of passion?” …”You are mistaken, Ernest,” she said at last. “There is only the passionate spark....

Patience is a virtue not a vice.

Maturity of a woman is not in her age or size for age is just a number and size is figure.

Feeling lonely? Wish you had a special someone to help fill the void? Reconsider your definition of romance, reconnect to your passions and be swept away.

To some extent a life of celibacy is a picture of how all of us are to live, containing our passions for God’s purposes.

Pesticide is meant to deal with pests as passion is to deal with unnecessary loss of interest! Passion kills the ghosts of “I can’t”.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

Rosa had achieved the sort of serene and confident happiness that Tamsin had never really known. She was connected to Roberto in a way that made Tamsin long for something similar. A man with whom...

She smiled, looking up at him, his lips interrupting her attempt to respond. He pulled back slightly, but Rylan stopped him. She wrapped her hands around the back of his head and pulled him back...

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job and financially you need never to...

There is the love that I love but don’t want to love and try to bleed out so the love that I want but don’t want, can die a tragic death. And as it lays...

Whenever we have something that we are good at–something we care about–that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first impressions.

Instead of channeling passion through my fingertips, I summoned the courage to channel it through my eyes.