“One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success out of his life.”
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“One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success out of his life.”
“The anger of lovers renews the strength of love. ”
“We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack ”
“Wild love, is there anything you cannot force upon the human heart. ”
“They do not love that do not show their love”
“Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring”
“If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength”
“Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit”
“An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex”
“It is impossible to love and to be wise”
“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. ”
“Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God.”
“All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.”
“Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark”
“We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions.”
“I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life ”
“Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm”
“There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride”
“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity”
“If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only”