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“To think big is to love the universe, to embrace our passion. To love is to fight for what we love. What a waste not to, when we have only this one life to live.”

Thinking Bigs Fighting Universe Passion Love Is Waste Embrace Think Big One Life To Live

Book:The Think Big Manifesto: Think You Can't Change Your Life (and the World) Think Again

Source: The Think Big Manifesto: Think You Can't Change Your Life (and the World) Think Again

“If I cannot offer some relief to our world, if I cannot inspire our generation to join me, then I feel I am a complete waste of space. This constant fear of feeling irrelevant in our society has been the catalyst behind all my efforts and passions for as long as I can remember.”

“. . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death”

Thinking May Passion Waste Breaths Pretending Idealism

Book:Later Poems

Source: Later Poems

“Would that our harsh judgments could be restrained, our impatience checked, our selfishness broken down, our passions controlled, our waste of time and life in worthless or unworthy objects corrected, by the thought that there is One in whose hands we are, who cares for us with a parent's love, who will judge us hereafter without the slightest tinge of human' infirmity, the All-Merciful and the All-Just.”

“...I prefer not to have among my guests two people or more, of any sex, who are in the first wild tremours of love. It is better to invite them after their new passion has settled, has solidified into a quieter reciprocity of emotions. (It is also a waste of good food, to serve it to new lovers.)”

People Firsts Two Romance Passion Sex Emotion Food Lovers Waste Invites Guests Reciprocity Good Food

Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to vanquish the rest. Even idleness, as feeble and languishing as it is, sometimes reigns over them; it usurps the throne and sits paramount over all the designs and actions of our lives, and imperceptibly wastes and destroys all our passions and all our virtues.”

Sometimes Able Action Passion Strong Virtue Our Lives Design Waste Ambition Errors Violent Laziness Thrones Reign Idleness Paramount Vanquish Strong Passion

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Whatever your passion is, keep doing it. Don't waste time chasing after success or comparing yourself to others. Every flower blooms at a different pace. Excel at doing what your passion is and only focus on perfecting it. Eventually people will see what you are great at doing, and if you are truly great, success will come chasing after you.”

People Ifs Different Success Passion Perfect Focus Flower Waste Compare Pace Wasting Time Chasing Great Success Blooming Flower Don't Waste Time Comparing Yourself Comparing Yourself To Others

Author:Suzy Kassem

“The young are always coming up with the good ideas; it's because they waste time. They follow their passion and do something, not looking for a payoff, just doing what's interesting.”

Ideas Young Time Passion Interesting Waste Stress Wasting Time Good Ideas Payoff

Author:Kevin Kelly

“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty.”

“You can waste your whole life trying to be everything to everybody. Pick your passion. And let them pick theirs.”

Trying Whole Passion Waste Picks Whole Life

Author:Josh Becker

“That’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know- that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. -Simon Stimson, OUR TOWN”

Source: Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker

“Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.”

“But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life.”

Way Inspiration Christian Lasts Dies Passion Christ Differences Waste Making A Difference Saturated Waste Of Life

Author:John Piper

“Generations of women have sacrificed their lives to become their mothers. But we do not have that luxury any more. The world has changed too much to let us have the lives our mothers had. And we can no longer afford the guilt we feel at not being our mothers. We cannot afford any guilt that pulls us back to the past. We have to grow up, whether we want to or not. We have to stop blaming men and mothers and seize every second of our lives with passion. We can no longer afford to waste our creativity. We cannot afford spiritual laziness.”

Men World Want Feels Past Spiritual Mother Passion Grows Creativity Growing Up Too Much Our Lives Generations Changed Waste Daughter Blame Guilt Luxury Laziness Every Second Live With Passion

Author:Erica Jong

“Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them? Why look for friends or partners who will just shore up your self-esteem instead of ones who will also challenge you to grow? And why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you? The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. This is the mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most challenging times in their lives.”