What do singer Janis Joplin, talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, and inventor George Washington Carver have in common?

Passion.

All three have followed their heart’s desire with passion. Janis, with music, Rush on the radio, and Carver with dedication to research.

“Without passion,” said writer Henri-Fredric Amiel, “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.”
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DRIVING FORCE...
"If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion.” ~ Anita Roddick

A woman both daring and different, Anita Roddick (1942-) founded the retail giant The Body Shop in 1976 with what she called "a revolution in kindness." Born in Littlehampton, England, Roddick created a successful business that sold environmentally-friendly beauty products and passionately changed the spirit of entrepreneurship.

"You have to believe in what you are doing so strongly it becomes a reality," Roddick said.
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THE TALENT AND PASSION...
"I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.” ~ Ingrid Bergman

The beautiful and ORIGINAL actress from Stockholm, Sweden, Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982) lit up the screen with unforgettable roles in Casablanca (1942), For Whom the Bells Tolls (1943), and many others.

In 1950, she stunned her fans with her scandalous affair with Italian director Roberto Rosselini. Passion ruled again. By 1956, the scandal passed as she won an Academy Award (her second) for Anastasia.

"I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say," she reflected.
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PASSIONATE SENSE OF POTENTIAL...
"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential, for the eye, which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. What wine is so sparkling, so fragrant, so intoxicating, as possibility!” ~ Søren Kierkegaard

Danish writer Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855), the father of existentialism, inspired Sartre and Camus with his philosophy. His wish for the "passionate sense of the potential" is a celebration of life and all its beautiful possibilities.

Passion transforms a possibility into reality.

Live with passion!