#passions

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#famous #independent #intensity #like #love

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity. ↗

— Robert Southey

#fly #life #love #other #others

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. ↗

— Claud-Adrian Helvetius

#action #every #every man #him #man

We must not let our passions destroy our dreams. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#dreams #must #our #our dreams #passions

Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing. ↗

— Cameron Conaway

#life #passions #writing #life

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