#passions

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you learn all about it. Even your passions exhaust you. ↗

— Kevin Barry

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Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#passions #dreams

Coming true is not the only purpose of a dream. Its most important purpose is to get us in touch with where dreams come from, where passion comes from, where happiness comes from. Even a shattered dream can do that for you. ↗

— Lisa Bu

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#hurricane #loves #middle #middle age #opera

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