#passion

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason. ↗

— Herbert Read

#analogous #appetites #assumption #being #digestions

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology. ↗

— Ron Reagan

#choose #compassion #future #ideology #ignorance

How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying not to get it all thumbprinty? ↗

— James Wolcott

#carrying #digital #flame #get #how

I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue. ↗

— Tina Yothers

#because #had #i #other #passions

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#passion #reason #ruling #still #will

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude. ↗

— Albert Camus

#passion #real #real passion #servitude #twentieth

Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office. ↗

— Anita Diament

#always #chat #day #end #end of the day

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing. ↗

— Jerome Lawrence

#enthusiasm #i #i think #passionate #think

The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are mine. I selected the color because it is engaging, flirtatious, memorable, and the color of passion. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#color #engaging #flirtatious #function #i

I knew then that this is how God loves us all and receives us all, and that there is no such thing in this universe as hell, except maybe in our own terrified minds. Because if even one broken and limited human being could experience even one such episode of absolute forgiveness and acceptance of her own self, then imagine—just imagine!—what God, in all His eternal compassion, can forgive and accept. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#compassion #forgiveness #god #love #people