Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at the center of it.

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No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.

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Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

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Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings.

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Passion is momentary; love is enduring. - John Wooden

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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

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Happiness springs up from within. Do not seek it without. ― Ogwo David Emenike

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Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation. -Michael Jackson

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Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. — Dante Alighieri

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Passion is the degree of difficulty we are willing to endure to accomplish the goal.

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