Tagged: passion
“… our purpose as spiritual beings is to follow our bliss, seek our passions, & live our lives as inspirations to each other.” —Aron Ralston, 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.” – Anais Nin, Diary entry July 7, 1934
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” ― Rumi
“Living for something extends beyond fashion, glory, or recognition. We live for what we believe.” – Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz
“I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal, and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised and misunderstood.” -Audra Lorde, The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” -Cecil Beaton, The Unexpergated Beaton
“Respond to every call that excites your spirit.” -Rumi
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” -Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Speech
“The most beautiful makeup for a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.” -Yves St. Laurent
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” -Jack Krakauer, Into the Wild
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