Quotes About Passion

Be aware of anything that's directing you toward activities that truly ignite your passion. If events seem to be taking you in a new direction in your work, for instance, or signs point to changing your job or location, pay attention!

but by loving what I'm saying and selling that love.

Kahlil Gibran, the spiritual Lebanese poet, once advised that "if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Every passionate thought that you have regarding how you want to conduct your life is evidence that you're in harmony with your own unique nature—your fervent belief is all you need.

if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Begin to see what passions are stirred up as you allow the ride to be directed by your Source rather than ego.

An inner knowing, along with a burning desire, is the prerequisite for becoming a person capable of manifesting his or her heart's desires.

Writing is not something that I do. It is what I am.

I am and never become a teacher doing my job in a listless charade of indifference.

the word enthusiasm is "the God within.

everyone has a calling to be inspired.

Let the world know why you're here and do it with passion...Don't die with your music still inside you.

You never forget your first love.

Either people like running or they don't. Either people get it or they don't. And if they don't, they just think people who like it are crazy. Which is okay. That makes us even.

Anger is a fuel that can only carry you so far.

I also finally see that a crimson kiss isn't something you can chase, because it's more than just the passionate meeting of mouths. It's a confession. It's the truth your lips whisper to someone you love.

am a runner. That's what I do. That's who I am. Running is all I know, or want, or care about.

To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.

I became a sort of garden fanatic, and I am not over it yet. You can take a few seed peas, dry and dead, and sow them in a little furrow, and they will sprout into a row of pea vines and bear more peas—it may not be a miracle, but that is a matter of opinion.

An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.

The point of course is to be a great saint, to love greatly, rightly, and with passion, until we burn ourselves up in service to God and to others. Our wholeness, our integrity, depends on the health of our friendship with God. It was he who fashioned us from the dust. It was he who breathed his life into our bodies. So when we ignore God's Word, we violate our own identity.

To live and praise God in blessed mediocrity (Tonio! spiritual brother!), to be at home in the world—how with bitter passion he envied that and them, people like Sam here, pouring the rye.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.