"All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual."

Balzac, Honore De on emotions
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"Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more than his deeds, his wisdom does not endure."

Talmud, The on deeds and good deeds
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"I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude."

Lee, Bruce on happiness
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"As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason."

Browne, Sir Thomas on reason
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"It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair."

Kierkegaard, Søren on courage   

"The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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"Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place."

Picabia, Francis on youth   

"So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom."

Bible on wisdom
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"To do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way; to do some things better than they were ever done before; to eliminate errors; to know both sides of the question; to be courteous; to be an example; to work for the love of work; to anticipate requirements; to develop resources; to recognize no impediments; to master circumstances; to act from reason rather than rule; to be satisfied with nothing short of perfection."

Marshall Field & Company on excellence   

"All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on passion
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"The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still."

Pope, Alexander on passion   

"Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more."

Cowper, William on knowledge   

"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."

Seneca on courage
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"To look is one thing, to see what you look at is another, to understand what you see is a third, to learn from what you understand is still something else, but to act on what you learn is all that really matters! How do I act?"

Unknown, Source on action   

"What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed."

Tsvetaeva, Marina on love   

"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on wisdom   

"When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding."

Proverb, Chinese on knowledge   

"It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others."

John of the Cross, St. on silence
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"With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]"

Bible on age and aging
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"There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear. "

Burke, Edmund on uncategorised   

"Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two."

Cheever, John on wisdom   

"Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know."

Curtis, Donald on faith
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"Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy."

Blake, William on heaven   

"What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. 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 and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so."

Boorman, John on passion
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