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Passion Quotes About Love

“Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait,
the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.”
~ Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"Who would you consider to be the most passionate person you know? Are they just passionate about one aspect of their life (eg. their partner, work or hobby), or does this quality tend to overflow into most aspects of their world? I bet it's the latter.

True passion is a powerful state of being that can dynamically influence all facets of your life. As you feel new emotion and consciously embrace passion into your identity, new confidence, playfulness and energy are born. This will be clearly evident to friends, family and in the workplace, but perhaps nowhere moreso than in your intimate relationship which will ignite with new vibrancy, intensity and excitement.

Living with passion allows you to live life to your full potential. Passion breeds enthusiasm, optimism, a sense of adventure and energy. Other people are naturally attracted to you as moths to a light.

Make a conscious decision to live with passion and you will literally see your world fall into step with your new way of being!"

LJ

Be inspired to become even more enthused, dedicated and expressive in the areas that mean most to you as you read these beautiful passion quotes about love:

“All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and are subject to sickness, pain, suffering and death. Culture consists of bringing about the expression of these passions and desires in harmony.”
~ Lin Yutang (1895-1976), Chinese writer & inventor, Quote from The Importance of Living (1937)

“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”
~ Carl Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist, Quote from Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963) with Aniela Jaffe, ed.

“Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.”
~ Rose Franken (1896-1988), Jewish American playwright

“A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.”
~ William Hazlitt (1778-1830), English writer

“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.”
~ D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), English writer & poet

The following two quotes on passsion are both profound and inspiring:
“Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what he loves.”
~ Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French mathematician, physicist & religious philosopher

“Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.”
~ Henry Ford (1863-1947), Founder of Ford Motor Company>

“Great passions may give us this quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which come naturally to many of us. Only be sure it is passion – that it does yield you this fruit of a quickened, multiplied consciousness… To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.”
~ Walter Pater (1839-1894), English essayist, art & literary critic

“I can never get people to understand that poetry is the expression of excited passion, and that there is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?”
~ Lord Byron (1788-1824), English poet [George Gordon Byron]

“If passion drives you, let reason hold the reigns.”
~ Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), one of the founding fathers of the United States, author, politician & diplomat

One of my favourite passion quotes. This is literally a life-changing concept:
“If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.”
~ T. Alan Armstrong (details unknown)

Passion quotes can also show the all-encompassing extremities of emotion that passion can bring with it:
“I hated him with a passion so deep, sometimes it felt like love.”
~ Terri Guillemets, American quotation anthologist, Quote from The Quote Garden

“In music the passions enjoy themselves.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher & writer

One of the more thought-provoking, and possibly controversial, of the passion quotes (be it from a man who was world-renowned for both his intellect and passion):
“Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.”
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian scientist, mathematician, engineer, painter, anatomist, inventor, architect, sculptor & writer

“In the human heart, there is ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another… If we resist our passions, it is due more to their weakness than our own strength… Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one – as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.”
~ François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680); French author of maxims & memoirs

“It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.”
~ George Santayana (1863-1952)

"Never dismiss the idea that it is possible to behave or think in a way that goes against even your most precious personal principles and ethics. For it is in the moment that you discount something as being possible, that you let down your guard in the area, only to become an easy target for its lair."

LJ

Passion quotes that highlight the extremes of this emotion - desire for unlimited passionate romance through to suppression and denial of the power passions can wield:
“I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.”
~ Unknown Author

“It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.”
~ George Santayana (1863-1952), philosopher, essayist, poet & novelist

“It is easy to fly into a passion – anybody can do that – but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time with the right object and in the right way – that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.”
~ Aristotle (384-322 BC), Greek philosopher

“It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.”
~ Christian Bovee (1820-1904), American author, Quote from Thoughts, Feelings and Fancies (1857)

“It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.”
~ Aesop (620-560BC), Ancient fabulist

“Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune… when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.”
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), American novelist & short story writer, Quote from The Scarlet Letter (1850), ch.15, [born Nathaniel Hathorne]

“Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, the romance and you find out you still care for that person.”
~ Unknown Author

“Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever.”
~ Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998), professor & author

“Love without passion is dreary; passion without love is horrific.”
~ Author uncertain (some attribute to Lord Byron (1788-1824), English poet)

“Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.”
~ Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British statesman & literary figure, Quote from Coningsby (1844)

“Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.”
~ Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695), French poet

Some very inspiring passion quotes:
“Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher

“Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.”
~ Denis Diderot (1713-1784), French philosopher & writer

“The anticipation of touch is one of the most potent sensations on earth.”
~ Richard J. Finch

"While it's said that a picture's worth a thousand words to the gaze, words cannot adequately express the feeling of touching the one you love. Touch, just like a kiss from one with whom you deeply connect, communicates so much to your partner about how you feel in that moment. Why not welcome it as a friend and mentor to more fully express how you feel?"

LJ

Passion quotes that display the transforming power of passion:
“Passion and purpose go hand in hand. When you discover your purpose, you will normally find it’s something you’re tremendously passionate about.”
~ Steve Pavlina (dates unknown), American self-help author, motivational speaker & entrepreneur

“Passion can never purchase what true love desires: true intimacy, self-giving, and commitment.”
~ Unknown Author

“Passion is the genius of genius.”
~ Anthony Robbins (1960-), American self-help writer, entrepreneur & motivational speaker

“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.” ~ Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist & playwright

“Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow... Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead.”
~ Joss Whedon (1964-), American writer, director & executive producer, Quote from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (American TV series)

“Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.”
~ François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680); French author of maxims & memoirs

More priceless wisdom from passion quotes:
“Passion requires focused direction, and that direction must come from three other areas: your purpose, your talents, and your needs.”
~ Steve Pavlina (dates unknown), American self-help author, motivational speaker & entrepreneur

“Passions are vices or virtues in their highest powers.”
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1842), German author

“Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American essayist, philosopher & poet

“Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a high regard for the value of each other’s person.”
~ Nathaniel Branden (1930-), psychotherapist

“The anticipation of touch is one of the most potent sensations on earth.”
~ Richard J. Finch (details unclear)

“The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.” ~ Victor Hugo (1802-1885); French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist & human rights activist, Quote fromLes Misérables

“The law is reason free from passion.”
~ Aristotle (384-322 BC), Greek philosopher

"What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.”
~ Anaïs Nin (1903-1977)

"When a person puts on the glasses of passion, they see the world as if it were through different eyes!

Why not decide to become a person of passion? Consciously teach yourself to operate from this modality, and it will soon become a natural part of who you are."

LJ

Quotes about passion... perhaps food for thought as well as action?

“The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead...”
~ John Boorman (1933-), English filmmaker

“The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.”
~ Yves Saint Laurent (1936-2008), Algerian-born French fashion designer

“The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.”
~ Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), French soldier & writer, Quoted from The 32nd Infantry Division in World War II (1957) by Harold Whittle Blakeley, p.3

“The passions act as winds to propel our vessel, our reason is the pilot that steers her; without the winds she would not move; without the pilot she would be lost.”
~ F. Shulz (details unknown)

“The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.”
~ Christian Bovee (1820-1904), American author, Quote from Thoughts, Feelings and Fancies (1857)

“The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in the passion we inspire.”
~ François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680); French author of maxims & memoirs

“The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher & writer

“The seizure of passionate love can be, in such a context, only illicit, breaking in upon the order of one’s dutiful life in virtue as a devastating storm.”
~ Joseph Campbell (1904-1987), American writer, Quote from Myths to Live By (1972)

“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 (1872-1970), British philosopher, mathematician, historian & writer

“We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.”
~ Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983), American journalist & author

“When work, commitment and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible.”
~ Nancy Coey (details unknown)

"What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.”
~ Anaïs Nin (1903-1977), Cuban-French author

“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.”
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881), Swiss philosopher, poet & critic

I hope you've found these passion quotes about love thought-provoking, and that they act as a catalyst to catapult you into passionately pursuing and living the life of your dreams!

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