A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
激情
Passion
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
对政治的热情通常源于对权力、友谊和奉承的贪得无厌的需求，或者两者兼而有之。
People with passion are people who will destroy - for a man's passion is not true until he proves how much he's willing to sacrifice for it.
有激情的人是会毁灭的人，因为一个人的激情只有在他证明自己愿意为之付出多少代价时才算真正的激情。
If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.
如果你觉得有什么事情是你应该做的，如果你对它有激情，那么停止希望，去做。
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
明智的是谁?向每个人学习的人。强大的是谁?控制自己激情的人。谁是富人?知足者常乐。那是谁?没有人。
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
牙痛，或者一种强烈的激情，并不一定会因为我们对其原因、性质、重要性或无关紧要的认识而减弱。
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
人们常常注意到，在激情的激励下写出好诗的人，在其他情况下却写不好。
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
因为，无论观察到多少激情，它都能带来洞察;它能给傻瓜、傻瓜和白痴带来某种智慧，尤其是在青年时期。
We decide based on how people look; we decide based on how people sound; we decide based on how people are dressed. We decide based on their passion.
我们根据人们的长相来决定;我们根据人们的声音来决定;我们根据人们的穿着来决定。我们是根据他们的热情来决定的。
It could not always be love in the afternoon and passion in the night, gifts given, notes written, meals fed to each other. It can't all be like that.
它不可能永远是下午的爱和晚上的激情，礼物，笔记，喂给对方的饭。不可能都是那样的。
As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.
只要有音乐家对自发性有激情，对创造前所未有的东西有激情，爵士乐的艺术形式就会蓬勃发展。
When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.
当爱生了病，我们能做的最好的事情就是把它暴死;我不能忍受一种挥之不去的消费激情的折磨。
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
艺术是与娱乐结合在一起的道德激情。没有娱乐的道德激情是宣传，没有道德激情的娱乐是电视。
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
很明显，我们不能向一个从未经历过激情的人解释激情，就像我们不能向盲人解释光一样。
Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
激情存在于所有伟大的探索中，对于所有创造性的努力都是必要的。
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
让你的生活有意义的方法是全身心地去爱别人，全身心地投入到你周围的社区，全身心地去创造一些能给你目标和意义的东西。
They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.
那些告诉我们爱会死的人是有罪的:在生活中，所有其他的激情都会飞走，其他的都只是虚荣。
Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it.
工作吗?我一生中从未工作过一天。我一直热爱我所做的事情，对它充满激情。
Finding one’s voice is a process of finding one’s passion.
找到自己的声音是找到自己激情的过程。