354 quotes
“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world”
— Jim Carrey
“The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.”
— Germaine de Staël
“The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself”
— Diane von Furstenberg
“I have no special talents I am only passionately curious”
— Albert Einstein
“One day you will wake up and there will not be any more time to do the things you have always wanted do it now”
— Paulo Coelho
“Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you the future will take care of itself”
— Paramahansa Yogananda
“Be like water making its way through cracks it is not assertive but always finds a way”
— Bruce Lee
“Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it”
— Confucius
“Knowledge is power, but without passion, it is nothing.”
— Stephen King
“I am always doing that which I cannot do in order that I may learn how to do it”
— Pablo Picasso
“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings”
— William Blake
“Life is meant to be fun and joyful and fulfilling”
— Jim Henson
“Take up one idea make that one idea your life think of it dream of it live on that idea”
— Swami Vivekananda
“A day without laughter is a day wasted”
— Charlie Chaplin
“I hope for nothing I fear nothing I am free”
— Nikos Kazantzakis
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
— Harriet Tubman
“Only if we understand can we care only if we care will we help only if we help shall they be saved”
— Jane Goodall
“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do”
— Bob Dylan
“Through jazz we learn to persevere its always about getting back on the bandstand and releasing something pure”
— Wynton Marsalis
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and courage”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library”
— Jorge Luis Borges
“You are only given a little spark of madness you must not lose it”
— Robin Williams
“Let everything happen to you beauty and terror just keep going no feeling is final”
“Have no fear of perfection you will never reach it”
— Salvador Dali
“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart”
— Carl Jung
“I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall”
— Serena Williams
“A thousand dreams within me softly burn.”
— Arthur Rimbaud
“Great dancers are not great because of their technique but because of their passion”
— Martha Graham
“He who is not impassioned by the Good is not able to know it.”
— Plotinus
“The only people for me are the mad ones the ones who are mad to live mad to talk mad to be saved”
— Jack Kerouac
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love it will not lead you astray”
— Rumi
“Chase your passion, not your pension.”
— Denis Waitley
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does love is a battle love is a war love is a growing up”
— James Baldwin
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek”
— Joseph Campbell
“Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.”
— Victor Hugo
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all”
— Helen Keller
“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.”
— D.H. Lawrence
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom”
— Vincent van Gogh
“Champions keep playing until they get it right”
— Billie Jean King
“The more important a call or action is to our souls evolution the more resistance we will feel toward pursuing it”
— Steven Pressfield
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
— Unknown
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
“Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time”
— Herman Hesse
“One good thing about music when it hits you you feel no pain”
— Bob Marley
“Ask what makes you come alive and go do it”
— Howard Thurman
“Take your broken heart make it into art”
— Meryl Streep
“Success is no accident it is hard work perseverance learning studying and most of all love of what you are doing”
— Pelé
“I exist as I am that is enough”
— Walt Whitman
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
— Vincent Van Gogh
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it”
— Nelson Mandela
“Only the educated are free”
— Epictetus
“Working hard for something we do not care about is called stress working hard for something we love is called passion”
— Simon Sinek
“If you feel a burning desire within you, it is because you were meant to follow it.”
“There is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
“What happens to a dream deferred”
— Langston Hughes
“All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope”
— Alexandre Dumas
“Everything you can imagine is real”
“Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.”
— Muriel Spark
“Do what you love, and the money will follow.”
— Marsha Sinetar
“The present is theirs the future for which I really worked is mine”
— Nikola Tesla
“It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a great deal of it”
— Seneca
“Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far but none goes further.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what is happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what is happening”
— Sharon Salzberg
“In the end just three things matter how well we have lived how well we have loved how well we have let go”
— Jack Kornfield
“The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“We are all just walking each other home”
— Ram Dass
“The most common form of despair is not being who you are”
“I dream my painting and I paint my dream”
“A musician must make music an artist must paint a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself”
— Abraham Maslow
“To love is to burn, to be on fire.”
— Jane Austen
“Sometimes it is the notes you do not play that make the music”
— Itzhak Perlman
“Everything negative pressure challenges is all an opportunity for me to rise”
— Kobe Bryant
“Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel; our reason is the pilot that steers her.”
— Alexander Pope
“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”
— Lao Tzu
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
“A man can do all things if he but wills them.”
— Leon Battista Alberti
“There is nothing to writing all you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed”
— Ernest Hemingway
“The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.”
— Anaïs Nin
“There is no way around the hard work embrace it”
— Roger Federer
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
“That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal as time will show”
— Ada Lovelace
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage to look at ourselves honestly”
— Pema Chodron
“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.”
— Anthony J. D'Angelo
“There is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living and faith calls us to live fully”
“The iron ore thinks itself senselessly tortured in the furnace, but the tempered blade looks back and knows better.”
“Faith is a passionate intuition.”
— William Wordsworth
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them”
— Walt Disney
“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
“Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.”
— Ice-T
“If I could tell you what it meant there would be no point in dancing it”
— Isadora Duncan
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom”
— Isaac Asimov
“A single spark in the heart can light up the world.”
— Anonymous
“Because you are alive everything is possible”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
— Aristotle
“I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze.”
— Jack London
“Do not 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”
“Wherever you go there you are”
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
“When you are inspired by some great purpose, all your thoughts break their bonds.”
— Patanjali
“Whenever you are creating beauty around you you are restoring your own soul”
— Alice Walker
“You do not have to be a genius you just have to be yourself”
— Austin Kleon
“The battles that count are not the ones for gold medals the struggles within yourself are the ones that matter”
— Jesse Owens
“Those who have a why to live can bear with almost any how”
— Viktor Frankl
“It dont mean a thing if it aint got that swing”
— Duke Ellington
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart”
“To define is to limit”
— Oscar Wilde
“They always say time changes things but you actually have to change them yourself”
— Andy Warhol
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you”
— Ray Bradbury
“There is only one meaning of life the act of living itself”
— Erich Fromm
“The wound is the place where the light enters you”
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
— William James
“I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory”
— Fernando Pessoa
“Mistakes are the portals of discovery”
— James Joyce
“To be human is to be driven by passion.”
— Nietzsche
“The body says what words cannot”
“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”
“What is all knowledge too but recorded experience and a product of history”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work”
“He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.”
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
“The great instrument of moral good is the imagination”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
“I do not know where I am going from here but I promise it will not be boring”
— David Bowie
“No medicine cures what happiness cannot”
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.”
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
“Creativity is always a leap of faith you are faced with a blank page blank easel or an empty stage”
— Julia Cameron
“The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself. The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself.”
— Laozi
“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage truth and courage are not always comfortable but they are never weakness”
— Brene Brown
“Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known”
— Carl Sagan
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage”
“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery.”
— Maxim Gorky
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness”
— Desmond Tutu
“Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.”
— Satchel Paige
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us”
— Franz Kafka
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart”
“Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”
— Albert Camus
“Music is a very personal and internal art there is no other art form where you open yourself so much”
— Isaac Stern
“Skills are cheap passion is priceless”
— Gary Vaynerchuk
“Do not pray for an easy life pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
“For what it is worth it is never too late to be whoever you want to be”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I was born with music inside me music was one of my parts like my ribs my kidneys my liver my heart”
— Ray Charles
“If you feel an impulse to pursue some passion, do not shrink from it; great things have been done by those who had the courage to begin.”
— Hafez
“If all mankind were to disappear the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago”
— E.O. Wilson
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Passion is energy feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you”
— Oprah Winfrey
“A strong spirit transcends rules”
— Prince
“Creativity takes courage”
— Henri Matisse
“One cannot think well love well sleep well if one has not dined well”
— Virginia Woolf
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls”
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference”
— Robert Frost
“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me look what happens with a love like that it lights the whole sky”
— Hafiz
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace”
— Jimi Hendrix
“If you feel something calling you to dance or paint or sing, it is the length of your life speaking to you.”
“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it”
— Hannah Arendt
“Nobody cares if you can dance well just get up and dance great dancers are not great because of their technique”
“Let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you”
“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet”
— Stephen Hawking
“It is never too late to be what you might have been”
— George Eliot
“The things that we love tell us what we are.”
— Thomas Aquinas
“Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same”
— Emily Bronte
“The most dangerous phrase in the language is we have always done it this way”
— Grace Hopper
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent”
“To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.”
— Walter Pater
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness it took me years to understand that this too was a gift”
— Mary Oliver
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do”
— Steve Jobs
“The good thing about science is that it is true whether or not you believe in it”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life”
— Wayne Dyer
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering.”
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
“I have a lot of stamina and I have a lot of resilience”
— Lin-Manuel Miranda
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
“Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals.”
— Angela Duckworth
“Do not play what is there play what is not there”
— Miles Davis
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
“The antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest. The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.”
— David Whyte
“I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to”
— Georgia OKeeffe
“The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long”
“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different”
— Coco Chanel
“Act nothing in a furious passion. It is putting to sea in a storm.”
— Thomas Fuller
“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“If you judge people you have no time to love them”
— Mother Teresa
“I want people to be afraid of the women I dress”
— Alexander McQueen
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way ask yourself do I want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future”
— Deepak Chopra
“Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire”
— William Butler Yeats
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free”
— Michelangelo
“Keep true to the dreams of your youth”
— Friedrich Schiller
“If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”
“Do one thing every day that scares you”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice”
— Anton Chekhov
“When you arise in the morning think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive to breathe to think to enjoy to love”
“I am no bird and no net ensnares me I am a free human being with an independent will”
— Charlotte Bronte
“All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.”
— Honoré de Balzac
“Choose to be optimistic it feels better”
— Dalai Lama
“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“I love you without knowing how or when or from where I love you simply without problems or pride”
— Pablo Neruda
“What is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives”
— Rupi Kaur
“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
“No great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig”
“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”
— Richard Bach
“Smile breathe and go slowly”
“I would like to paint the way a bird sings”
— Claude Monet
“The mind that is not baffled is not employed the impeded stream is the one that sings”
— Wendell Berry
“In everyone life there is at certain stage of our life when we decide who we are”
— Albert Schweitzer
“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”
— Frederick Douglass
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy”
— Beethoven
“Musicians do not retire they stop when there is no more music in them”
— Louis Armstrong
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I would rather have questions that cannot be answered than answers that cannot be questioned”
— Richard Feynman
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower”
“Never trust a computer you cannot throw out a window”
— Steve Wozniak
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy”
“Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans”
— John Lennon
“Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.”
“Creativity is a habit and the best creativity is a result of good work habits”
— Twyla Tharp
“A problem is a chance for you to do your best”
“From the age of six I had a mania for drawing the shapes of things”
— Hokusai
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go”
— Hermann Hesse
“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love”
— Mooji
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it is going to be a butterfly”
— Buckminster Fuller
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts”
— Rachel Carson
“If you want to create something truly significant do something that most people cannot even dream of”
— Sadhguru
“No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark”
— Warsan Shire
“He did it with all his heart, and prospered.”
— King Solomon
“I dwell in possibility”
— Emily Dickinson
“There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision dream or desire a reality”
— Tony Robbins
“Work is love made visible”
— Khalil Gibran
“The secret of being boring is to say everything”
— Voltaire
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.”
“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”
“Every artist was first an amateur”
“Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life”
“Without music life would be a mistake”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation”
“The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts think only on those things that are in line with your principles”
— Heraclitus
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“Find a job you enjoy doing and you will never have to work a day in your life”
— Mark Twain
“This is the real secret of life to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now”
— Alan Watts
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods there is a rapture on the lonely shore”
— Lord Byron
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes”
— Marcel Proust
“If you want to build a ship do not drum up the men to gather wood but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act the rest is merely tenacity”
— Amelia Earhart
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake”
— Henry David Thoreau
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.”
— Federico Fellini
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.”
— Plato
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”
— Blaise Pascal
“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Each person must live their life as a model for others”
— Rosa Parks
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge”
— Bertrand Russell
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading you can only think what everyone else is thinking”
— Haruki Murakami
“Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want communicate with others as clearly as you can”
— Don Miguel Ruiz
“The roots of education are bitter but the fruit is sweet”
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”
“You are your best thing”
— Toni Morrison
“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke.”
“Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.”
“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”
“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives”
— Jackie Robinson
“Beauty will save the world”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Where passion is married to intelligence, you may find genius, resistance, or madness.”
“Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.”
— G.W.F. Hegel
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever”
— John Keats
“My mission in life is not merely to survive but to thrive and to do so with some passion some compassion some humor and some style.”
— Maya Angelou
“Time and silence are the most luxurious things today”
— Tom Ford
“Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished”
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
“Comedy is acting out optimism”
“There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
“You miss one hundred percent of the shots you never take”
— Wayne Gretzky
“I must have flowers always and always”
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart I am I am I am”
— Sylvia Plath
“If we are a metaphor of the universe the human couple is the metaphor of the couple of the metaphor”
— Octavio Paz
“We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time”
— T.S. Eliot
“In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exists, there must also be losers.”
“My mission in life is not merely to survive but to thrive and to do so with some passion some compassion some humor and some style”
“The best moments in our lives are not the passive receptive relaxing times the best moments usually occur if a persons body or mind is stretched to its limits”
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately”
“All real living is meeting”
— Martin Buber
“One is not born but rather becomes a woman”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is maybe you should set up a life you do not need to escape from”
— Seth Godin
“I have missed more than nine thousand shots in my career and that is why I succeed”
— Michael Jordan
“Fashions fade style is eternal”
— Yves Saint Laurent
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be just be one”
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas”
— Marie Curie
“Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.”
— Niccolò Machiavelli
“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“Authentic happiness derives from raising the bar for yourself not comparing yourself to others”
— Martin Seligman
“To play a wrong note is insignificant to play without passion is inexcusable”
— Ludwig van Beethoven
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world”
— Anne Frank
“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.”
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do, and to do it with a burning sincerity.”
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
— Joan Crawford
“I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning”
— Yo-Yo Ma
“Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude.”
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why”
“Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.”
“The main thing is to be moved to love to hope to tremble to live”
— Auguste Rodin
“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor”
“Rest in reason; move in passion.”
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together”
“It is like a beautiful disease that affects me very strongly”
— Cy Twombly
“I do not try to dance better than anyone else I only try to dance better than myself”
— Baryshnikov
“Start where you are use what you have do what you can”
— Arthur Ashe
“Still I rise”
“Human behaviour flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage”
— Anais Nin
“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor”
— Charles Dickens
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
“To follow without halt one aim there is the secret of success”
— Anna Pavlova
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth”
— Muhammad Ali
“Hidden nature is secret God”
— Sri Aurobindo
“The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul”
— Bach
“The secret to high performance and satisfaction is the deeply human need to direct our own lives”
— Daniel Pink
“The truth is that you already are what you are seeking”
— Adyashanti
“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing”
— Naomi Shihab Nye
“Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity because if you are passionate about something then you are more willing to take risks”
“I paint flowers so they will not die”
— Frida Kahlo
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet”
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius love love love that is the soul of genius”
— Mozart
“A creative life is an amplified life it is a bigger life a happier life an expanded life and a hell of a lot more interesting life”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
“There is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living”
“Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.”
“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy”
“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely”
“Life is simple everything happens for you not to you”
— Byron Katie
“Without passion, you cannot do anything.”
“Love in its essence is spiritual fire.”
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams”
“Instructions for living a life pay attention be astonished tell about it”
“Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all.”
“If you want to be happy be”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow learn as if you were to live forever”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I had no words for”
“No one will protect what they do not care about and no one will care about what they have never experienced”
— David Attenborough
“The desire of the moth for the star, of the night for the morrow, the devotion to something afar from the sphere of our sorrow.”
“Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.”
— Denis Diderot
“Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations”
— Rollo May
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming”
“All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of living. One must also leave behind the self that one has begun to outgrow.”
— Lafcadio Hearn
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
“Whatever you can do or dream you can begin it boldness has genius power and magic in it”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars.”
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