A Quote by Paulo Coelho

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

Paulo Coelho

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Paulo Coelho
Brazilian - Novelist
Born: August 24, 1947

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

Honore de Balzac

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Ashley Roberts

In our competitive world we're taught to never quit trying, never give up, and never give in - so we don't hear much about surrendering. If winning is everything, surrendering is unthinkable. Even Christians would rather talk about winning, succeeding, overcoming, and conquering than yielding, submitting, obeying, and surrendering. But surrendering to God is the heart of worship.

Rick Warren

I later realized that this is my view of passion: It is rooted in genuine friendship. Chemistry may be two strangers exchanging smoldering looks—but passion has to be able to survive at least a twenty-minute conversation!

Helen Simonson

There are some who live by every rule and cling tightly to their rectitude because they fear being swept away by a tempest of passion, and there are others who cling to the rules because they fear that there is no passion there at all, and that if they let go they would simply remain where they are, foolish and unmoved; and they could bear that least of all. Living a life of iron control lets them pretend to themselves that only by the mightiest effort of will can they hold great passions at bay.

Philip Pullman

I think that passion if really intense is always destructive if not to the two involved, always to other people.

May Sarton

One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.

Pierre Bonnard

True zazen is surrendering every moment. But surrendering to what? It really does not matter what we call it: God or the Tao or the Dharma or the Buddha or our true nature. . . . It is the act of letting go, of surrendering, that matters. The very act of letting go opens us up completely.

Dennis Merzel

Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm battling with keeping my narcissism at bay as it is, so Twitter was not a good thing for that.

Joel Kinnaman

Light had a way of keeping the monsters of my imagination at bay.

Becca Fitzpatrick

There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

Charles Curtis

We need to realize that a society in which contraceptives are widely used is going to have a very difficult time keeping free of abortions since the lifestyles and attitudes that contraception fosters create an alleged "need" for abortion.

Janet E. Smith

Wearing glasses for reading meant surrendering to old age without the least bit of a fight.

Andrea Camilleri

I think L.A. radio is learning from the Bay. The Bay is a very classic place. Mac Mall, C-Bo, all that stuff, they love their artists, they're old school up there. My first big concert was playing in the Bay; I played the Fillmore.

Ice T

Passion is very destructive.

Isabelle Adjani

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