#passions

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#fire #fireplace #jumped #never #out

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

#also #dreams #else #generous #includes

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#appetites #consists #enjoyment #happiness #nature

Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#ask #go #never #passions #realistic

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#exaggerate #only #passions

Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times. ↗

— Chris Christie

#country #emotions #fathers #fleeing #founding

I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#american #eclectic #follow #going #hurts

What passions cannot music raise or quell? ↗

— John Dryden

#music #passions #quell #raise

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. ↗

— Carl Jung

#inferno #man #never #overcome #passed

Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists. ↗

— Ethan A. Hitchcock

#bent #claimed #deceived #dupes #men