Pain - Quotes

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A little bit of pain is good for you. Everybody needs struggle. Once you overcome an obstacle, you springboard into the future. Life is interesting and short and it's not supposed to be easy, and if it is, you're probably just in denial and you're existing here like a zombie. - Pamela Anderson

Anybody can laugh in joy, but the bold ones also smile in pain … knowing that pain is just like a zooming train, that will soon pass by. - Unknown

Don't forget that in the midst of all your pain and heartache, you are surrounded by beauty, the wonder of creation, art, your music and culture, the sounds of laughter and love, of whispered hopes and celebrations, of new life and transformation, of reconciliation and forgiveness. - WM. Paul Young

Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain. - Horace Mann

Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. - Joseph Campbell

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don’t think that’s only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that. - Kevin Bacon

It is only through labour and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. - Theodore Roosevelt

It is pain that changes our lives. - Steve Martin

It would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life. - Aeschylus

It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments. - Christopher Paolini

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. - Maya Angelou

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it. - Rabindranath Tagor

Never underestimate the pain of a person because the truth is everyone is struggling. It’s just some people hide it better than others. - Will Smith

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. - J.K. Rowling

Of all the things we can feel with our minds and bodies, severe pain is the purest, for it drives everything else from our awareness and focuses us as perfectly as we can ever be focused. - Dean Koontz

Often it’s your deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your highest self. - Karen Salmenshon

Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers. - Aeschylus

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. - Walter Bagehot

One will never understand what you’re going through unless he has lived it nor will he know your pain unless he has felt it. - Jacqueline Nambiar

Pain. The Buddhist Monks believe it exists only to be embraced, that we must fold it into our lives alongside pleasure and remember that both are fleeting. - Jim Profit

Pain ... after you've lived with it long enough, isn't pain any more. It's something else. - Samuel R. Delany

Pain and illness, the deaths of those one loves, and discomforts and disappointments mar the happy norm, but they do not alter the fact that happiness is the norm, nor affect the tendency of the continuum to restore it, to heal it, after any disturbance. - Jean Liedloff

Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. - Sarah Jane Smith

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows. - Dean Koontz

Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible. - Eckhart Tolle

Pain changes people, it makes them trust less, overthink more, and shut people out. - Unknown

Pain for the old was no longer a surprise. - Cormac McCarthy

Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly ... and if left unresolved for very long, you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place. - WM. Paul Young

Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every man would be a monster. The recognition of pain and fear in others gives rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption. - Dean koontz

Pain is a part of growing up. It's how we learn. - Dan Brown

Pain is always an opportunity for real expansion and growth. - Sherri Bishop

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. - Dalai Lama 

Pain is only what you allow it to be. - Cassandra Clare

Pain is part of anyone's journey... you can't escape it. - Unknown

Pain is temporary. It comes to teach a lesson and when the lesson is understood, it disappears into the night. - Unknown

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. - Lance Armstrong

Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt. - J. M. Coetzee

Pain may create misery, pain may give you sorrow. It may trouble you today, but will be gone tomorrow. Pain has its ways; it surely comes but never stays. - RVM

Pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion. - George Eliot

Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present. - Jacqueline Carey

Pain, no matter how prolonged it seems to be, is just a short-lived thing that one day, in one way or another, we will overcome. - Rosemary Altea

Pain, you just have to ride it out, hope it goes away on its own, hope the wound that caused it heals. There are no solutions, no easy answers, you just breath deep and wait for it to subside. Most of the time pain can be managed but sometimes the pain gets you where you least expect it. Hits way below the belt and doesn't let up. Pain, you just have to fight through, because the truth is you can't outrun it and life always makes more. - Dr. Meredith Grey

People come and go, pain comes and goes. But so does joy. And if our hearts are closed because we don't want to suffer, they won't be open enough to recognize the joy as it flies by. - Geneen Roth

Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain clings cruelly to us. - John Keats

Replacing one pain with another doesn't work. You'll just be left with both, soon enough. - Christine Kurkierewicz

Some of the most painful scars: the ones that hurt the most are the scars that can’t be seen. - Unknown

Some people think that to be strong is to never feel pain. In reality the strongest people are the ones who feel it, understand it and accept it. - Unknown

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends. - Aeschylus

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset. - Thomas Jefferson

The lessons we learn from pain are the ones that make us the strongest. - Lionel Luthor

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. - Roger Bannister

The most annoying pain is perceived when a man is living without a purpose. - Amit Kalantri

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body. - Publilius Syrus

The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth. - Unknown

The pains of life serve, by contrast, to multiply enjoyment; they constitute the foil which sets off and heightens the flashing brightness of the gem. - Eliza Cook

The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it. They say that time heals all wounds, but we never live long enough to test that theory. - Jose Saramago

There are only so many ways to experience pain. There are an almost limitless number of ways to inflict it, but the pain itself, initially vividly distinct in all its specifications, becomes, inevitably, just pain. - China Mieville

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful. - Fernando Pessoa

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain. - R. D. Laing

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. - Carl Jung

There is no tyrant as merciless as pain. - Stephen King

There is one pain I often feel, which you will never know. It is caused by the absence of you. - Anthony Hopkins

There is such a thing as anaesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne. - Jack London

To hurt is as human as to breathe. - J. K. Rowling

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering. - Paulo Coelho

We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. - Eleanor Roosevelt

We can’t escape pain; we can’t escape the essential nature of our lives. But we do have a choice. We can give in and relent, or we can fight, persevere, and create a life worth living, a noble life. Pain is a fact; our evaluation of it is a choice. - Jacob Held

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. - Jim Rohn

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. - Kenji Miyazawa

We wince under little pains, but nature in us, through the excitement attendant upon them, braces us to endure with fortitude greater agonies. - Christian Nestell Bovee

When times are difficult, remind yourself that no pain comes to you without a purpose. - Unknown

When we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom; we think even the noise of streets harmonious, and are ready to hug the tradesman who is wrapping up our change. - George Eliot

Wherefore groan and lament over pain? Be, rather, thankful for this one sign of life; for the dead suffer no pain, and lay figures are never chilled by frost. - Ivan Panin

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from over mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life. - Angelina Jolie

Without the possibility of pain, there can be no joy, no real love. - Angela Montenegro

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

Painting - Quotes

A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces. - Christian Nestell Bovee

A painter does a painting, and he paints it and he paints it, and that's it, you know. He has the joy of creating it, it hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, and maybe somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it and it sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. - Joni Mitchell

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world. - Samuel Johnson

If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree, there would be no reason for making it; we might as well look at the tree itself. But the painting, if it is of the right sort, gives something that neither a photograph nor a view of the tree conveys. It emphasizes something of character, quality, individuality. We are not lost in looking at thorns and defects; we catch a vision of the grandeur and beauty of a king of the forest. - Calvin Coolidge

If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. - Vincent Van Gogh

Painting dissolves the forms at its command … it melts them into colour. - Alexander Eliot

Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. - Pablo Picasso

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. - Leonardo da Vinci

Painting is silent poetry. - Plutarch

Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed; contemplating it, everyone can create a story at the will of his imagination and – with a single glance – have his soul invaded by the most profound recollections; no effort of memory, everything is summed up in one instant. A complete art which sums up all the others and completes them. Like music, it acts on the soul through the intermediary of the senses: harmonious colours correspond to the harmonies of sound. But in painting a unity is obtained which is not possible in music, where the accords follow one another, so that the judgment experiences a continuous fatigue if it wants to reunite the end with the beginning. The ear is actually a sense inferior to the eye. The hearing can only grasp a single sound at a time, whereas the sight takes in everything and simultaneously simplifies it at will. - Paul Gauguin

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. - Pablo Picasso

The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius. - Washington Allston

The painter with an original vision is always opposed by the schools. That is, at first. But when he wins out, then the schools merely take over his technique and use it as a club to put down the next creator. And so it goes. - Horace Holley

The painter's work will be of little merit if he takes the painting of others as his standard, but if he studies from nature he will produce good fruits. - Leonardo da Vinci

Parents - Quotes

Follow your dreams and aspirations, but listen to your parents. Live your life to the fullest, but respect your parents guidance. Make decisions according to your beliefs, but honour your mother and your father. Your life is an extension of your parents. Live it with respect, dignity, trust, and love. - Alvaretta Roberts

A natural parent has only two things principally to consider, the improvement of his son, and the finances to do it with. - George Washington

Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child’s life and it’s like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities. - Gary Smalley

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair. - Mitch Albom

Appreciate your parents. You never know what sacrifices they went through for you. - Unknown

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child’s success is the positive involvement of parents. - Jane D. Hull

By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments. - Eileen Kennedy-Moore

Don’t be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring. - Unknown

Don’t demand respect as a parent. Demand civility and insist on honesty. But respect is something you must earn – with kids as well as with adults. - William Attwood

I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you’ll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn’t. - Mitch Albom

I think, one thing that I've really come to appreciate about my parents as I've got older is you know, how wise they really were. As a kid when I was growing up, as any kid, you think you know everything and I was no different to that. I had different opinions on a lot of different things than them but the way they raised me, in hindsight, they were right. - Tiger Woods

If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent. - Bette Davis

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them – not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone. - Anne Bronte

If your children look up to you, you’ve made a success of life’s biggest job. - Unknown

In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well. - WM. Paul Young

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. - Maya Angelou

It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful. - Roald Dahl

It’s not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can’t tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself. - Joyce Maynard

I've come to realize that making it your life's work to be different than your parents is not only hard to do, it's a dumb idea. Not everything we found fault with was necessarily wrong; we were right, for example, to resent, as kids, being told when to go to bed. We'd be equally wrong, as parents, to let our kids stay up all night. To throw out all the tools of parenting just because our parents used them would be like making yourself speak English without using ten letters of the alphabet; it's hard to do. - Paul Reiser

Listen more to your kids and talk less. - Unknown

Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you're picking up the pieces – down to the last glassy splinter. - Saul Bellow

Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up. - Ezra Taft Benson

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. - John Locke

Parenting is the toughest job on earth as you are responsible for the physical, emotional & mental development of another human being. - Unknown

Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other ‘isms’ grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity. - Roger Ebert

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something. - Chuck Palahniuk

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands. - Anne Frank

Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing. - Erik Erikson

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do. - Barbara Walters

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it. - Haim Ginott

Parents try the best they can. They want the best for you. But a lot of their stuff is just their own. If you can pull yourself away from it and not always feel like they're attacking you, then it's easier to deal with. - Jessica Alba

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. - Croft M. Pentz

Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put your kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely near-sighted gaze. - Garrison Keillor

The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents. - Christopher Paolini

The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment. - James E. Faust

The duty of Parents to their Children does not terminate in giving them existence. - Wellins Calcott

The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with torture called education. - John Updike

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder. - Jim Morrison

The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being’s mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it’s too hard. - John Lennon

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one. - John Dryden

The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the end of his life is how not to disgrace them. - Confucius

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. - Henry Ward Beecher

We’re parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place. - Tim McGraw

When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts. - Robert Brault

You don’t always know what your kids will do, but your kids should always know what you will do. - Joyce Sanders

You will never really know what kind of parent you were or if you did it right or wrong. Never. And you will worry about this and them as long as you live. But when your children have children and you watch them do what they do, you will have part of an answer. - Robert Fulghum

Passions - Quotes

A man in a passion, rides a mad horse. - Benjamin Franklin

A man or a woman without passions is like a windmill in a calm – motionless, ghastly, useless. - Abraham Miller

A person who has not passed through the inferno of their passions has never overcome them. - Carl Jung

All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet. - George Eliot

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young. - Oscar Wilde

As a storm conceals the glories of the sun and defaces the beauty of the landscape, even so do maddening passions deform the soul, bearing along with their impetuous waves both pestilence and death. - William Scott Downey

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. - Antisthenes

By following your passion, we find our purpose. - Paul S Boynton

Chase your passion, not your pension. - Denis Waitley

Check your passions, that you may not be punished by them. - Epictetus

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. - Anthony J. D’Angelo

Each person discovers a field of allurements, the totality of which bears the unique stamp of that person's personality. Destiny unfolds in the pursuit of individual fascinations and interests ... By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion. - Brian Swimme

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. - Claud-Adrian Helvetius

Everyone's got to be passionate about something, or they're not worth shit. - Joseph Finder

Find something you are passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it. - Unknown

Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don’t let anyone limit your dreams. - Donovan Bailey

He is a Governor that governs his Passions, and he a Servant that serves them. - Benjamin Franklin

Human passion is a heavy working charge of electricity, which runs safely and profitably through the cable reason; but, if the cable is broken, the current becomes dangerous. - Austin O’Malley

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable. - Stephen Fry

If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it. - Vittorio Alfieri

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. - Benjamin Franklin

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

If you can’t figure your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose. - J. D. Jakes

If you feel like there’s something out there that you’re supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it. - Wanda Skyes

If you have passion for what you do, the company you keep, the life you live, it will be reflected in whatever you create. Passion is like that; it springs out, jumps, unpredictable and unplanned, into everything we touch. Passion can’t be faked and it can’t be manufactured. Which is why it is so priceless. - Unknown

If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted. - Seneca

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. - Henry Wadworth Longfellow

It is madness to think that we can fix an end to passions which we cannot control at their beginning. - Seneca

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. - T. S. Eliot

It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to discover about our own can only be learned from them. - Marcel Proust

It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile. - Chamfort 

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters. - Sir Roger L’Estrange

Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions. - Benjamin Disreali

Many people in reasoning on the passions make a continual appeal to common sense. But passion is without common sense, and we must frequently discard the one in speaking of the other. - William Hazlitt

Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it. - Paul Newman

Men who act under dishonest passions are like men riding fierce horses: they cannot stop when they will, and they ride to ruin. - Henry Ward Beecher

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. - Edmund Burke

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. - Donald Trump

Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate. - Jon Bon Jovi

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested. - E. M. Forster

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. - Unknown

Our passions are, in truth, like the phoenix. When the old one burns away, the new one rises out of its ashes at once. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there’s nothing to make it last. - Nicholas Sparks

Passion gives me moments of wholeness. - Anais Nin

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. - Oprah Winfrey

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you’re more willing to take risks. - Yo-Yo Ma

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. - William Penn

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. - Robert Sternberg

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Passion ungoverned by Reason is Madness. - Benjamin Whichcote

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 truly be dead. - Joss Whedon

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind. - Unknown

The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason. - Thomas Hobbes

The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things the wrong way. - Plato

The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

The soul is never perfectly secure from the influence of passion; the occasional tranquillity she seems to enjoy, is rather relaxation than imperturbable triumph. - Norman MacDonald

The value of passion, like fire, is judged finally by the amount of warmth and light it creates. Fanatics, like forest fires, burn bright but destroy all in their path that is tender and green. To be useful, fire must be confined. To live passionately, we must develop discipline; forge bonds of commitment. Passion is inseparable from compassion. - Unknown

There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel. - George Eliot

There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it’s the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson. - Anthony Robbins

There is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequences of his passions – does not find images rising in his mind which soothe the passion with hope or sting it with dread. - George Eliot

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. - Joseph Addison

Understanding should go first and find out the way, then passion should be as wings to carry us on in it. - Benjamin Whichcote

We have no more control over the duration of our passions than we do over the duration of our life. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable. - D. H. Lawrence

When you’re surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible. - Howard Schultz

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 Frederic Amiel

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out. - Steve Jobs

You have to rely on your preparation. You got to really be passionate and try to prepare more than anyone else, and put yourself in a position to succeed, and when the moment comes you got to enjoy, relax, breathe and rely on your preparation so that you can perform and not be anxious or filled with doubt. - Steve Nash

Past / Present / Future- Quotes

A good knowledge of things past is an armour against events to come. - Edward Counsel

All the past is not worth one today. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

All the strange, checkered past seems to crowd upon my mind. - Abraham Lincoln

All tradition is merely the past. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Do not let the past hold you back. Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it. - Unknown

Don’t use your past as an excuse as to why you are bitter. Use your past as a reason as to why you are better. - Shari Alyse

Dwelling on the past only blinds you to the future. - Andrew Boyd

Forget the past: it is dead and gone. Live for the future; it is alive and full of potential. - Unknown

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future. - John Quincy Adams

Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past. - James Joyce

How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it. - Jeanette Winterson

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. - Virginia Woolf

I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak. - Robert E. Howard

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is. - Donald Trump

If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen into the abyss. - Christian Morgenstern

If the past has taught us anything it is that every cause brings its effect, every action  has a consequence. - Unknown

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other ... for only out of the past can you make the future. - Robert Penn Warren

It is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday. - William H. Gass

It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist. - Alexander Lowen

It is yesterday that makes tomorrow so sad. - Austin O’Malley

It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past. - Aldous Huxley

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. - Charles Dickens

Learn from the past; never use it as an anchor. - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that is gone. - Unknown

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now. - Christopher Paolini

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too. - Marcus Aurelius

Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Most people hold onto the past; Only those who can appreciate what they have now live fully. - Unknown

My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me. - Steve Maraboli

Never be a prisoner of your past, it was just a lesson, not a life sentence. - Unknown

Never live on past glory or think that you can always repeat outstanding results. Time moves on and changes everything. - Unknown

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days. - Doug Larson

Not heaven itself upon the past has power; but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. - John Dryen

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it. - Nabokov

Once lived the past has very little value. And yet we carry its lifeless body into all future moments, allowing it to crush us with its weight. - Don Miguel Ruiz

One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. - Gaston Bachelard

Our most merciless enemy is our past. - Maxim Gorky

Pain makes you stronger. Tears makes you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser. So thank the past for a better future. - Unknown

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future. - Maxim Gorky

Ruminating about the past is like trying to drive backward to undo a car accident. - Julie A, M. A. Ross and Judy Corcoran

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. The events that cause them can never be forgotten. - Cormac McCarthy

Sometimes the past is something you just can’t let go of. And sometimes the past is something we’ll do anything to forget. And sometimes we learn something new about the past that changes everything we know about the present. - Meredith Grey

Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past. - Dan Brown

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future. - Jim Rohn

That which is past is gone and irrevocable, and wise men have enough to do with things present and to come. - Francis Bacon

The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you cannot go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches. - Unknown

The future and the past are equally meaningless because they are nebulous entities, times that do not exist, containing events which have no echo because they are gone, or which hold no import because they are yet to happen. What is important is the here and now. - Tim Lebbon

The greatest and most active part of mankind has never hitherto been well contented with the present. - Thomas Hobbes

The past cannot be changed, but the future is yet in your grasp. - Unknown

The past cannot be changed, forgotten, edited or erased. It can only be accepted. - Unknown

The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfilment in whatever form. Both are illusions. - Eckhart Tolle

The past is a closed door. - Margaret Atwood

The past is always judged by the present. - Neith Boyce

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn. - H. G. Wells

The past is never where you think you left it. - Katherine Anne Porter

The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow. - Samuel R. Delany

The past may dictate who we are, but we get to determine what we become. - Unknown

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock. - Ivern Ball

The present is a bright speck between the darkness of the future and the twilight of the past. - Eliza Cook

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. - Jane Austen

To refuse to let go of the past is to deny the natural process of change that is a function of every living organism. - Jerry Greenwald 

To stay present in everyday life, it helps to be deeply rooted within yourself; otherwise, the mind, which has incredible momentum, will drag you along like a wild river. - Eckhart Tolle

Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits. - Sarah Breathnach

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it. - Rick Warren

We can deny the past, but we can’t escape its torment because the past is a speaking shallow that keeps pace with the truth of what we are, step for step, until we die. - Gregory D. Roberts

We need not destroy the past. It is gone. - John Cage

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible. - George Santayana

We should not expect all the present to be as good as the best of the past. - Lewis F. Korns

We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past; and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what is no more. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it. - Barack Obama

When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near. - Andre Gide

When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need it any more. Presence is the key. Now is the key. - Eckhart Tolle

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man’s past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavours and the tinglings of a merited shame. - George Eliot

You always romanticize the past as soon as the future begins to frighten you. - Rick Remender

You can victimize yourself by wallowing around in your own past. - Wayne Dyer

Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you. - Sarah Dessen