Live Passionately Quotes

• Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from the neat little neutral ambiguities. Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's sake be it to the top of your bent. Live fully, live passionately, live disastrously. Let's live, you and I, as none have ever lived before.

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  Violet Trefusis

  Drunk   Giving   Brave  

  Said to Sackville-West. "Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson". Book by Nigel Nicolson, p. 148, 1998.

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• There are four principles we really taught: to live passionately, love completely, learn humbly and then lead boldly.

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  Kerry Shook

  Principles   Passionate   Four  

  Lifeway Research interview, www.christianitytoday.com. September 30, 2008.

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• If sexuality is one dimension of our ability to live passionately in the world then in cutting off our sexual feelings we diminish our overall power to feel know and value deeply.

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  Judith Plaskow

  Cutting   Feelings   World  

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• We cannot worship the suffering God today and ignore him tomorrow. We cannot eat and drink the body and blood of the passionate and compassionate God today, and then refuse to live passionately and compassionately tomorrow. If we say or sing, as we so often do, 'Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit', we thereby commit ourselves, in love, to the work of making his love known to the world that still stands so sorely in need of it. This is not the god the world wants. This is the God the world needs.

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  N. T. Wright

  Father   Son   Blood  

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• The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a different. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you. Go out there with your double-first, your passion and your new Smith Carona electric typewriter and work hard at ... something. Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. East sensibly. Stuff like that.

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  David Nicholls

  Art   Life Changing   Hard Work  

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• Those who live passionately teach us how to love. Those who love passionately teach us how to live.

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  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  How To Love   Passionate Love   Teach  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2009). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, p.3, Hachette UK

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• To live passionately, we ought to be able to look once again at the people we once cared for deeply and painfully.

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  Paul Delaroche

  Passion   People   Looks  

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• Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's sake be it to the top of your bent.

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  Violet Trefusis

  Drunk   Brave   Wicked  

  Violet Keppel Trefusis, Mitchell Alexander Leaska (1991). “Violet to Vita: the letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-21”, Viking Adult

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• Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance

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  David Nicholls

  New Years Resolution   One Day   Principles  

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.381, Hachette UK

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• It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.

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  John Eldredge

  Men   People   Risk  

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