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This is perhaps the most distinctive Buddhist teaching, that suffering is the product of 'the craving of the passions, the craving for existence, the craving fornonexistence.' It is, however, far from an obvious truth. Certain cases of suffering areplainly due to craving, namely, those that are due to frustrated desires. Desires may be eased by satisfaction or extirpation; and one may allow that if one stopped desiring, itwould amount to preventing all the suffering due to frustration. But this does not provethe general case.... Body, feelings, perception, mentality, and consciousness are separate sets of graspings. There is nothing that -does- the grasping. -We- are the aggregate ofthe graspings, not something, apart from them, that does the grasping. This is an interesting and startling thought.

- Danto, Arthur Coleman

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

- Gita, Bhagavad

Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.

- La Rochefoucauld, Fran?ois

The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man?s resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.

- La Rochefoucauld, Fran?ois

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

- Machiavelli, Niccol?

I\'m passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings--iT\'s All A Miracle.

- Rubinstein, Arthur

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

- Welles, Orson

That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.

- Robert Blair

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

- Edward Hyde Clarendon

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

- Jean de La La Fontaine