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Quotes About Passion

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life
~ Bertrand Russell
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
~ Charles Dickens
I don't know what better teenage life you could get than going around the world doing what you love to do.
~ Anna Kournikova
Do not mix de galloping of your horse, my knight, with the beating of your heart.
~ Old Chinese Proverb
A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied
~ Cyril Connolly
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
~ Federico Fellini
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
~ Flaubert
Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.
~ Greer Garson
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
~ TS Eliot
Dont ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
~ Howard Thurman
Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.
~ Pierre de Coubertin
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
~ Unknown
Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path....This is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.
~ James Hillman
The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
~ Earl Nightingale
I know this now. Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing yet they give their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have and we live i
~ Anne Sexton
To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss.
~ Joseph Campbell
I am in love - and, my God, it's the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love, if you haven't done so already. You are wasting your life.
~ DH Lawrence
I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
~ Harvey Mackay
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
~ George Bernard Shaw
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
~ Pablo Picasso
Love one person, take care of them until you die. You know, raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are. And figure out what you personally love. And like go after it with everything you've got no matter how much it takes.
~ Angelina Jolie
I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
~ Edith Wharton