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Desire. Enthusiasm. Purpose. Pleasure. Delight. Peace. Power. However you define passion, it is at the heart of your motivation.

Feeling passion fuels your spirit and feeds your joy.

Passion is a catalyst for action and provides you with the emotional stamina to stick with it, regardless of the obstacles.

Every day should have threads of passionate pursuits within it.

What turns you on, tunes you in, and lights your fire?

When passion is lit, the fire permeates your being with the positive expectation that all is well and everything will turn out great.

To be truly satisfied that your life is well-lived, the object of your passion is something you feel you must be, do, or have. What lights your fire?

Passion is not just about the object of your focus or desires—it is the compelling emotion, fulfillment, and intense enthusiasm that it engenders.

Are you impressed when you meet people who are filled with passion and conviction? Their energy is contagious and can make us all want “some of what they’re having!

When a person exudes passion, it is evident that they love what they are doing. Their passion projects an aura of confidence and decisiveness.

You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it’s how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger.

No one ever did anything worth doing unless he was prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

Under pressure, one of the most important things I have to remember to do is breathe.

I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

If a man takes one day off, it takes him about three days to get the harness fitted again.

I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a valuable service to the rhino and the rhino hardly notices the birds.

As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.

It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.

Recess and lunch are the best.