#passions

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

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#courts #dogmas #facts #justify #law

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. ↗

— David Hume

#knees #melancholy #men #much #oftener

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#experience #history #learn #men #metaphysical

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#failure #fault #i #lack #passions

Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#bound #degree #easily #enjoyments #every

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#appetites #care #cool #due #further

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#great #great passions #great things #only #passions

Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#build #converge #find #good #hard