#passions

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. ↗

— George Santayana

#grafted #green #inveterate #most #old

The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#because #consequences #desire #disagree #i

I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good. ↗

— Dan Savage

#best #good #i #i think #joining

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#account #acquired #brought #call #day

I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing. ↗

— Omar Sharif

#concentrate #gets #had #i #life

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#becomes #begins #between #death #emotion

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions. ↗

— Layne Staley

#desires #enough #get #i #lucky

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude. ↗

— Richard Steele

#only #others #passions #pleasing #solitude

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future. ↗

— Stendhal

#better #future #had #hope #lost

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#engages #groundwork #heart #lessons #most