Diane Ackerman Quotes About Passion

• What do those of us who aren't tall, flawlessly sculpted adolescents do?
  Answer: Console ourselves with how relative beauty can be...
  Thank heavens for the arousing qualities of zest, intelligence,
  wit, curiosity, sweetness, passion, talent and grace.

  Diane Ackerman

  Beauty, Passion, Zest

• I try to give myself passionately, totally, to whatever I'm observing, with as much affectionate curiosity as I can muster, as a means of understanding a little better what being human is.

  Diane Ackerman

  Passion, Mean, Giving

• Tendemos a pensar en los recuerdos como monumentos que una vez forjamos y que podemos encontrar intactos bajo la maleza de los años. Pero, en un sentido real, los recuerdos están ligados al presente y lo describen. Formados de una manera idiosincrásica cuando sucedieron, también son fieles al momento en que se recuerdan, incluyendo cómo te sientes, todo lo que has experimentado y nuevos valores, pasiones y vulnerabilidad. Nunca se entra dos veces en la misma corriente de conciencia.

  Diane Ackerman

  Memories, Real, Passion

  Diane Ackerman (2004). “An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

• habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.

  Diane Ackerman

  Passion, Thug, Habit

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.119, Vintage

• Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can't even talk or think about it directly.

  Diane Ackerman

  Passion, Fighting, Love Is

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.19, Vintage

• What is erotic? The acrobatic play of the imagination. The sea of memories in which we bathe. The way we caress and worship things with our eyes. Our willingness to be stirred by the sight of the voluptuous. What is erotic is our passion for the liveliness of life.

  Diane Ackerman

  Memories, Passion, Eye

  Diane Ackerman (1994). “A Natural History of Love”, Vintage

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