#passions

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He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.


Sarah Bernhardt


#anger #being #every #feeling #good

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.


Ambrose Bierce


#curiosity #cursed #desire #female #female mind

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.


Lao Tzu


#attacks #head #heart #love is #passions

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

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

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

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.


Jeff Bezos


#apollo #big #contributor #doubt #engineering

We are minor in everything but our passions.


Elizabeth Bowen


#minor #our #passions

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.


Charles Horton Cooley


#inner life #inordinate #largely #life #literature