“There is scarcely any passion without struggle.” – Albert Camus

“Be in love with your life. Every detail of it.” – Jack Kerouac

“All serious daring starts from within.” – Eudora Welty

“If you have a body, you are entitled to the full range of feelings. It comes with the package.” – Anne Lamott

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” – Henry Miller

“One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.” – Gustave Flaubert

“You well know that the hours in which I hate you are those when my love for you has become a passion outrunning all reason.” – Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore De Lespinasse

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.” – Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“When love is not madness, it is not love.” – Pedro Calderon De La Barca

“What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person.” – John Boorman