Passionate love is not peculiar to the human species, for it penetrates through all existing things—celestial, elemental, vegetable, and mineral.

About Avicenna

Ibn Sina (c. 980 – 22 June 1037), commonly known in the West as Avicenna, was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world. He was a seminal figure of the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers, and was influential to medieval European medical...

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America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness-built upon freedom-is moral, not material. we have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

—Woodrow Wilson

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My life wasn't horrible, but I didn't see any passionate reason to love it.

—Shannon A. Thompson in 2013: A Stellar Collection

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There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.

—Georges Clemenceau

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Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.

—Kristin Hannah in Distant Shores

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Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.

—Nikolai Gogol

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Passionate love is not peculiar to the human species, for it penetrates through all existing things — celestial, elemental, vegetable, and mineral.