#passions

Vices are often habits rather than passions. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#disposal #each #elastic #feel #fills

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#god #hear #hum #human #interests

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#because #become #both #death #good

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

When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#career #does #getting #his #i

I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#always #i #passions #ruled

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#god #man #passions #reason

Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression. ↗

— Criss Jami

#consistency #contentment #determination #discontentment #finite

We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism. ↗

— Billy Barty

#dreams #eighty #else #everyone #families