Quotes about Passion
To some, a guitar is just wood and string. To others, it's a shoulder, a jealous mistress, danger, sabbath, a voice in the wilderness, a suit of armor, a curtain to hide behind, a rock to stand on, a flying carpet, a hammer. But sometimes, in moments where light meets the dark, it's a stake we drive in the ground and the darkness rolls back as a scroll.
— Charles Martin
She blazed, burned herself out, and then disappeared into the silent deep, sounding the echoes of remembrance throughout a hollow and shattered heart.
— Charles Martin
Don't ever think I feel for you, or feel over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.
— Toni Morrison
The awful glimpse down into the abyss of an existence without him had so staggered and appalled her heart that she felt she could never be quite the same again. However, it had opened her eyes to the fact that right down in the depths of her own heart she really had but one passionate desire, not for the things which the Shepherd had promised, but for himself. All she wanted was to be allowed to follow him forever.
— Hannah Hurnard
For all his gentleness and humility unto death on the Cross, God does not relinquish his attribute of being judge and consuming fire. Nothing is more majestic than his Passion; even his anxiety is sublime. And God never denies his attributes to those who are his light in the world. They shine like stars in the cosmos, and even their anxiety, if God allows it, bears the marks of their divine destiny.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.
— LeBron James
Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.
— LeBron James
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
— Leo Buscaglia
A life lived in love will never be dull.
— Leo Buscaglia
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. :)
— Leo Buscaglia
I think that, initially, I was most passionate about music and particularly about playing the piano. I started playing when I was nine, and I was obsessed with it, really. I wouldn't even go spend the night at a friend's unless they had a piano. But I didn't have the chops, the extraordinary talent to be able to play the piano professionally.
— Holly Hunter
There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich