Quotes About Passion

When you have passion and commitment, you don't need a complex plan. Your plan is your life is your dream.

I became a wrestler because I loved a certain kind of aggression born, in part, of joy.

To let an impulse become a compulsion, especially if he thought he was contributing to a cause greater than himself

If you don't know your passion, it confuses your mind, not your heart.

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

It's becoming apparent that I like bad boys. That's one of my problems. They've all been bad boys. You're one too. You're a bad boy. But, I think you're a good bad boy.

Il faut suivre ta boussole [You must follow your compass], as we say in French. Do what feels right to you, then figure out how to earn a living at the same time.

I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.

With torture ,as with making love, foreplay is the all important factor

Donald Hall asked Henry Moore] 'what is the secret of life?' [Moore answered] 'The secret is to devote your whole life to one ambition. Concentrate everything you know, everything you can summon, to accomplish this one desire. But remember: Choose something you can't do.

Theirs was a forbidden love.

How do you know it's love and not obsession?

I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning.

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.

If you don't love yourself, and if you don't love what you do, then your productivity will be somewhere between mediocre and pathetic.

I wish slitting the wrist of the clock would let this moment last forever – your tongue so deep in my ear it feels like a paintbrush, coating the dark, peeling walls inside my head with a carmine veneer.

Surround yourself with things that amaze you, and you'll forget about comparing yourself to others.

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

I work too hard and I love it too much.

His mouth was soft and fit mine like my favorite pair of Dolce & Gabbana leather gloves that I scored at TJ Maxx.

Worry less about getting recognized and more about becoming good at what you do. Take yourself seriously. Take your art seriously. You are both worth this.

What makes you feel strong and fully alive? What lights you up and gives you energy just thinking about it? Who would you be to your village if you had one? BECOME AN INTEGRAL PART OF SOMETHING. Whether it's a knitting group, dance troupe, church, kayaking club, or homeschool collective, commit to growing community around one area of your life that enlivens you or fills a need.

Deciding means jumping in all the way, doing whatever it takes, and going after your dreams with the tenacity of a dateless cheerleader a week before prom night.

When you live your life doing the things that turn you on, that you're good at, that bring you joy, that make you shove stuff in people's faces and scream, "check this out!!!" you walk around so lit up that you shoot sunbeams out of yer eyeballs. Which automatically lights up the world around you. Which is precisely why you are here: to shine your big-ass ball of fire onto this world of ours. A world that literally depends upon light to survive. You