Hearts

Illusory walls, imaginary boundaries / blocking passage between hearts / minds and souls alike // What would it take / to break the walls / and build the bridges of hearts on its rubble? (Submit by Putu Agung Wija Putera, SJI-Singapore)

Passion

“Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.”




“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.” Hebbel quote.

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire. Stanley Kunitz,


The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. Alfred Lord Tennyson

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. Robert Sternberg


Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. - Honore de Balzac

“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.” Oscar Wilde quotes


The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. - Alexander Pope


Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions. - Benjamin Disraeli

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. Rebecca West