Quotes About Passion

You may spend your whole life following your curiosity and have absolutely nothing to show for it at the end except one thing. You will have the satisfaction of knowing that you passed your entire existence in devotion to the noble human virtue of inquisitiveness.

But it was pure, this love that I was feeling.

Sõltuvus on iga meeletu armumise paratamatu koostisosa.

Curiosity is what keeps you working steadily, while hotter emotions may come and go.

You might spend your whole life following your curiosity and have absolutely nothing to show for it at the end—except one thing. You will have the satisfaction of knowing that you passed your entire existence in devotion to the noble human virtue of inquisitiveness. And that should be more than enough for anyone to say that they lived a rich and splendid life.

I think a creative life is the most marvelous life there is.

So the question is not so much What are you passionate about? The question is What are you passionate enough about that you can endure even the most disagreeable aspects of the work.

If you don't have a clear passion and somebody blithely tells you to go follow your passion, I think you have the right to give that person the middle finger.

Your own reasons to create are reason enough.

For me, at the age of twenty-five, to hear a ninety-year-old widow speak of having her life changed by passion (and so recently!) was a revelation. It was one of those moments where I could almost feel my perspective expanding, as if my mind were being ratcheted open several notches and was now welcoming in all sorts of new possibilities for what a woman's life could look like.

For one thing, it will freak people out. I believe that enjoying your work with all your heart is the only truly subversive position left to take as a creative person these days. It's such a gangster move, because hardly anybody ever dares to speak of creative enjoyment aloud, for fear of not being taken seriously as an artist. So say it. Be the weirdo who dares to enjoy.

Stop treating your anxiety like it's a tired, old, unhappy, marriage (a grind, a drag) and start regarding it with the eyes of a passionate lover.

she would like to spend as much time as possible in such a state of transcendence while she is still here on earth. That's all. That's what I call creative living.

But a lot of people don't know exactly what their passion is or they might have multiple passions or they may be going through mid-life change of passion. All of which can leave them feeling confused and blocked and insecure.

If you don't have a clear passion and someone blithely tells you to go follow your passion, I think you have the right to give that person the middle finger.

Most individuals have never had enough time, and they've never had enough resources, and they've never had enough support or patronage or reward . . . and yet still they persist in creating. They persist because they care. They persist because they are called to be makers, by any means necessary.

What would you do even if you knew that you might very well fail? What do you love doing so much that the words failure and success essentially become irrelevant? What do you love even more than you love your own ego? How fierce is your trust in that love?

Why do people persist in creating, even when it's difficult and inconvenient and often financially unrewarding? They persist because they are in love. They persist because they are hot for their vocation.

Mark Manson, who said that the secret to finding your purpose in life is to answer this question in total honesty: "What's your favorite flavor of shit sandwich?

Even if you have only fifteen minutes a day in a stairwell alone with your creativity, take it. Go hide in that stairwell and make out with your art! (You can get a lot of making out done in fifteen minutes, as any furtive teenager can tell you.)

If you don't have a clear passion and somebody blithely tells you to go follow your passion, I think you have the right to give that person the middle finger. Because that's like somebody telling you that all you need in order to lose weight is to be thin, or all you need in order to have a great sex life is to be multiorgasmic: That doesn't help!

Así pues, ¿de dónde se saca la inspiración para trabajar cuando tu pasión decae? Ahí es donde entra la curiosidad.

La pasión puede parecer en ocasiones difícil de alcanzar: una torre en llamas distante, accesible solo a genios y a tocados de la gracia divina. La curiosidad, en cambio, es una entidad más moderada y pacífica, más hospitalaria y más democrática.

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. —COLETTE