#passions

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#appetites #desire #every #every man #external

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people. ↗

— Lord Byron

#comes #god #high #made #out

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more! ↗

— Edmund Waller

#give #more #passions #quiet #seas

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#character #comedy #diversified #even #great

You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#follow #follow your dreams #more #much #our dreams

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly. ↗

— Mary Wortley

#generally #man #natural #passions #proud

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#friendship #incompatible #other #passions #pity

When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#emotions #feeling #i #life #makes

I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#deliberately #great #i #important #last

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#earmarks #fugitive #most #ourselves #passionate