their passions QUOTES

1 " People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives. "

― Richard Steele

2 " It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. "

― Edmund Burke , Reflections on the Revolution in France

3 " Those do dare take risks, shall fulfill their passions. "

― Lailah Gifty Akita ,

4 " These conquerors of the world are slaves to their passions, and someday their passions will bring them down. "

― Francine Rivers , A Voice in the Wind (Mark of the Lion, #1)

5 " I felt for the tormented whirlwinds
Damned for their carnal sins
Committed when they let their passions rule their reason. "

― Dante Alighieri

6 " After finishing 1st draft of a novel, I have the characters, dialogue, scenes, and a plotline. I used to think this meant I knew where the story was going, and what the book was about.
I have learned over the years, this ain’t so.
As I work through its 2nd draft, characters start to nudge each other. The story itself takes its first soft and shallow breath, and one could imagine he hears a little bit of a heartbeat. Passions deepen, and emotional threads start to weave through what had earlier just been little more than a sequence of events.
On the 3rd run through, the characters stand tall. Some break free of my earlier concepts of what they were all about, what they wanted, how they related to each other, and where they were going.
From then on, THEY set the pace, and I do my best to honor them in becoming what THEY choose to be.
From then on, my friends; we have a story!

By the end of the 3rd draft, I have enough of an idea of where the characters are going, and how their passions empower the story, or tear it apart, that I can start cutting away, and cutting away, anything that isn’t that.
Until we reach the point where there is not a single word left anywhere in the book, that isn’t a vital, dynamic, organic contributor to the living whole. "

― Edward Fahey

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

― Oscar Wilde , De Profundis

8 " Everyone wants to be happy and live mindfully. Books teach us how to resuscitate the body and soul and how to recognize what in our own personal lives is worthy of noticing. Writers’ considered opinions and subtle observations regarding the joys, paradoxes, pains, tragedies, and truths of living provide us with a jumpstart in analyzing how best to integrate our personal experiences and disjointed thoughts into a cogent belief system. An artistic person understands their passions demand a struggle. Reading allows me unobtrusively to discover how other people freed themselves from suffering a destructive life of attachment, delusion, and disablement. "

9 " When animals express their feelings they pour out like water from a spout. Animals' emotions are raw, unfiltered, and uncontrolled. Their joy is the purest and most contagious of joys and their grief the deepest and most devastating. Their passions bring us to our knees in delight and sorrow. "

― Marc Bekoff , The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter

10 " of their passions in the same object at that particular time. "

― Adam Smith , An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations