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“Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.”
“Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.”
“To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion...”
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
“We got married in a fever hotter than a pepper sprout.”
“All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.”
“When love is not madness, it is not love.”
“Marriage changes passion - suddenly you're in bed with a relative.”
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
“Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.”
“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.”
“What passion cannot music raise and quell?”
“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”
“When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.”
“A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.”
“What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the mature life.”
“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.”
“Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
“Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.”
“People who never get carried away should be.”
“If... happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I am posessed by a fever for knowledge, experience and creation.”
“Valentine hearts beat more passionately than everyday hearts.”
“What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.”
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