“I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.”— Greta Garbo, goodreads.com
“I want to be someone's everything. I want fire and passion, and love that's returned, equally. I want to be someone's heart.”— S.C. Stephens, amazon.com
“In loving thou dost well, in passion not, Wherein true love consists not: Love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges; hath his seat In reason, and is judicious”— John Milton, amazon.com
“Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.”— John Milton, amazon.com
“Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.”— Egon Schiele, goodreads.com
“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“That’s what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I’m not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.”— Nicole Krauss, amazon.com
“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to. Stay home on New Year’s Eve if that’s what makes you happy. Skip the committee meeting. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. Read. Cook. Run. Write a story.”— Susan Cain, amazon.com
“On your face there is something like the promise of a storm: one day passion will burn it to the bone.”— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com
“Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.com
“These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.”— Elvis Costello, elviscostello.info
“What prompts us to action is desire; and desire has three forms—appetite, passion, wish.”— Aristotle, amazon.com
“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to. Stay home on New Year’s Eve if that’s what makes you happy. Skip the committee meeting. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. Read. Cook. Run. Write a story.”— Susan Cain, amazon.com
“On your face there is something like the promise of a storm: one day passion will burn it to the bone.”— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com
“To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world.”— Charles Baudelaire, amazon.com