176 Quotes About Passions

Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the hunger of your mind, to buy safety?

I finally gave in today. Admitting that I haven't been able to do it alone, that's defeat right? But do a couple pills change why I'm here? Will my spirit be altered? Do my passions change? Will I lose hope either way? My madness is what makes me. It’s my most unique beauty.

We are all taking on a role, until we find what we were born to do.

To say she is only a woman is to say a violin is a piece of wood with strings, and Dante is mere ink printed on paper.

A man begins to exist with a divine mission.

May the Lord grant you, your every desire.

Undoubtedly, you are overwrought from re-wroughting hand-wrought iron out right. But I think in time you will iron things out for yourself. Stay holstered and strapped to your side. It is said, ‘when genius matures it goes into hixibn’–“hiding.” You will know of this wisdom one day. --Thomas Kannon Sword Master, The Lady and the Samurai

In high school, in college, she was encouraged again and again to find her passion-a reason to get out of bed and breathe. In her experience, few people ever found that raison d'etre. What teachers and professors never told her was about the dark side of finding your purpose. The part where it consumes you. Where it becomes a destroyer of relationship and happiness. And still, she wouldn't trade it. This is the only person she knows how to be.

Meaning and purpose are not important. What matters is that one has things one loves to do.