Passion
A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross.
The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; -- opposed to action.
Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
The state of the mind when it is powerfully acted upon and influenced by something external to itself; the state of any particular faculty which, under such conditions, becomes extremely sensitive or uncontrollably excited; any emotion or sentiment (specifically, love or anger) in a state of abnormal or controlling activity; an extreme or inordinate desire; also, the capacity or susceptibility of being so affected; as, to be in a passion; the passions of love, hate, jealously, wrath, ambition, avarice, fear, etc.; a passion for war, or for drink; an orator should have passion as well as rhetorical skill.
Disorder of the mind; madness.
Passion week. See Passion week, below.
To give a passionate character to.
To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
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Passion Quotations
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Benjamin Franklin
It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.
Steve Jobs
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
C. S. Lewis
A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
Mahatma Gandhi
Live with passion!
Tony Robbins
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Tony Robbins
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion Translations
passion in Danish is ild
passion in Dutch is gloed, vuur
passion in Finnish is intohimo
passion in French is passion, ardeur
passion in German is Leidenschaft
passion in Italian is ardore, passione
passion in Latin is cupido, amor
passion in Swedish is vrede, passion, lidelse
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