Life Quotes

The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awakens passion. May I say once more - this essential energy of the soul is not an ecstatic trance, high emotion or a sanguine stance toward life: It is a fierce longing for God, an unyielding resolve to live in and out of our belovedness. - pg. 152

~ Brennan Manning

Compassion is a lifetime business. You can't say something like, I will have compassion on Monday, Thursdays and Fridays only. But for the rest, I will be cruel. That is hypocrisy.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost childlike into their nineties?

~ Jacqueline Novogratz

Passion can’t sustain itselfforever.

~ Haruki Murakami

The fiery force is nothing more than the life force as we know it. It is the flame of desire and love, of sex and beauty, of pleasure and joy as we consume and are consumed, as we burn with pleasure and burn out in time.

~ Harold Norse

Though either choice was good, one was truer to myself... Ultimately, I reflected on Geothe's invocation to 'make a commitment and the forces of the universe will conspire to make it happen' and chose the uncharted path.

~ Jacqueline Novogratz

What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of life is to be found in passion—romantic passion, religious passion, passion for work and for play, passionate commitments in the face of what reason knows to be meaningless.

~ Robert C. Solomon

How can you claim to have a passionate interest in something, and then make no effort to properly understand it?

~ Simon Cheshire

I resist my temptations in order to feel i am free.

~ Mike Gayle

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

~ Confucius

I want your hand without the skin. Bone to bone without the molds. Mouth to mouth, without the porn.

~ Coco J. Ginger

Don't let bad thoughts deceive you into thinking that you have to feel bad. Be aware and conscious of it and choose to think good thoughts whenever you are bombarded with the bad.Remember to live your life passionately!

~ Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

..And because he was still able to move his hands - Morrie always spoke with both hands waving - he showed great passion when explaining how you face the end of life.

~ Mitch Albom

When your attention is for the most important things, you mind the most important things! Give your attention to the most important things, and don't let anything at all get you thinking about anything! Have a true passion for living; you are here to accomplish a true mission!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

No matter what, you cannot run from who you are.

~ Nikhil Shrivastava

Don't let this consume you. Try not to blame me. Don't live in hate. Or grief. Just live.

~ Jackson Lanzing

Respect your passion and work on it. Your passion will respect you back.

~ Keyur Kumbhare

It may take us years and years to find our true calling in life. But one fine day, we eventually do find it! Till then make merry, laugh, fight, dance and enjoy the craziness...

~ Avijeet Das

I bleed passion. I’m not entirely sure what this means but I’m greedy over the words. They’re so full of life. And I really need some life to balance out the desperate allure of the dark.

~ Marley Jacobs

Let others think what they like: for me, the culmination of life consists of a pure and subtly dramatic passion.

~ José Ortega Y Gasset

Know what you want to accomplish in life, identify your purpose, and align it with your passion.

~ Farshad Asl

The greatest blessings are birthed out of adversity.

~ Kierra C.t. Banks

Life is not about possessions, it is about purpose, perseverance and passion.

~ Farshad Asl

When we are smitten, we await love to be “remontant” and to be blooming over and over again”, like remontant roses, with blossoms scenting through all the seasons of life. Passion and patience are to be good allies, though.

~ Erik Pevernagie

In our frenzied attempts to catch up with life, we run right past it. Once we have run past it, what we are in reality attempting to catch is ourselves.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Nothing tastes as good as the Taste for Life.

~ Stan Jacobs

I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life’s gifts in the places where life stores its scraps.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Fueled by faith and passion for our true priorities we're going to drive against traffic in order to find rest, refreshment, and time for what matters most in life.

~ Craig Groeschel

To have no desire is such a load of bullshit--forgive me for being so blunt. To have no passion in one's life is a cop-out for cowards.

~ Irina Kovalyova

In a moment I am everything, in a moment I am nothing. In a moment I understand everything, in a moment I do not understand anything.In a moment I am on cloud number 9, in a moment I am at ground zero.In a moment I love, in a moment I hate.In a moment I am a success, in a moment I am failureIn a moment I fight, in a moment I give upIn a moment I win; in a moment I lose and in moment I lose these moments to win more, to live for more and to love more.

~ Pushpa Rana

Life can be so wonderful when simplicity, passion and love is involved in everything we do !

~ Angie Karan

The thickest sweats produce the sweetest life. A hard work surely brings unheard happiness. Dig up your gold.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

To all the students - no school report card can tell you weather you can achieve your dream or not. Know your purpose, know your dream, know your vision, stay focused, do your job and do not listen to anyone including your report card. Don’t let the board results or rankings bother you. Do what you are passionate about, work harder, do better but don’t let your mark sheet tell you anything.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

We need work as much as we need rest; the two complement each other, one drawing power and enjoyability from the other. Rest is sweet after work, and work enjoyable after a good rest.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

The sea has its moods. Sometimes it is melancholic and morose, other times fierce and feisty. But always passionate. Even when calm, one can sense the depth of the sea’s passion

~ Jocelyn Murray

You have to know what you want to ever be able to have it.

~ Jewel

I’ve been accused of having a death wish but I think it’s life that I wish for, terribly, shamelessly, on any terms whatsoever.

~ Tennessee Williams

Amy is a Sharpie, she's passionate.

~ Caroline Kepnes

What do you love to fulfill in life?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When we follow our passion in life we choose to be in harmony with our inner nature.

~ Jose Incer