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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. Carl Jung

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

Thoughts People Other Else Someone Most Opinions Passions Quotation Lives

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. Eleanor Roosevelt

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. Lao Tzu

Love Heart Love Is Strongest Attacks Head Simultaneously Passions Senses

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana. Buddha

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All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people. Adolf Hitler

Great People Emotions Word Goddess Torch Distress Cast Ruthless Volcanic Spoken Spoken Word Passions Stirred Human Movements Midst Popular Activity

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits. Buddha

Good Charity Soil Tyrannical Those Bad Worthy Seed Bestowed Given Abundance Alms Merits Like Were Passions Yields Yoke Sown Fruits Choke Who Growth Receiver

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. Alfred Lord Tennyson

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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. Jack Kerouac

Failure Fault Control Passions Lack Them

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. Soren Kierkegaard

Life Great Thoughts Nothing Else Paradox Paradoxes Embryo Only Great Souls Call Souls Passions Intellectual Intellectual Life Than Pathos Just Which Grandiose Really Who Exposed Thinker

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. Vladimir Nabokov

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The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled - There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens. Samuel Adams

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. Denis Diderot

Great Soul Great Things Only Passions Elevate Things

Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it. John Quincy Adams

Human Being Fault Power Own Controlling Every Neglects Must Given He Answerable Passions Loses His Heaven Human Being

This is a day of little faith - of few convictions - a day when men seem to have no great causes and no great passions. So in frustration, in disappointment, they are inclined to say, 'You can't change human nature.' It is true that we cannot change human nature. But God can. Peter Marshall

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