#pass

I tumbled into the taxi alone, closing the door closed with a dull thud before I could possibly change my mind. Not like this, I remember thinking. Whatever this thing is between us, it could only be tainted and cheapened by a semi-drunken encounter on the night of our first meeting. As the car pulled away I stared back at him. The thought that I might never see him again, that I might never know what it would feel like to be kissed by him, seemed unbearably cruel. At a crossroads, I had been faced with a choice: two possible versions of my future mapped out ahead of me. But I didn't feel like I had made any sort of decision. All I had done was run away. ↗

— Catherine Sanderson

#lust #passion #change

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage. ↗

— Peter Paul Rubens

#ever #however #size #such #surpassed

In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#dark #general #gloomy #great #houses

If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

#career #could #had #i #i do

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#knowledge #life #longing #love #mankind

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world. ↗

— Francis Schaeffer

#orthodoxy #surely #thing #ugliest #without

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ↗

— George Washington Carver

#aged #because #been #being #compassionate

Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you learn all about it. Even your passions exhaust you. ↗

— Kevin Barry

#exhaustion #forty #passions #age

When the morning comes, let it go, this too shall pass. ↗

— Ok Go

#jr #music-lyrics #of-the-blue-colour-of-the-sky #ok-go #this-too-shall-pass

If we indulge in inordinate affection, anger, anxiety, God holds us responsible; but He also insists that we have to be passionately filled with the right emotions. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#passions #anger