If you feel something, feel it passionately. These words remind us to live boldly, to burn brightly, and to follow our heart’s true spark. ✨

“Patience is passion tamed.” ~ Lyman Abbott

“You show me a great program and I'll show you a passionate individual somewhere behind it.” ~ Andy Hertzfeld

“When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.” ~ Shunryn Suzuki

“Make passionate my sense of hearing.” ~ William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour Lost

“If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion.” ~ Anita Roddick

“Honest criticism means nothing; what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.” ~ Henry Miller

“The children—my own and other people’s—became the passion of my personal and professional life.” ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton

“I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.” ~ Chuang Tzu

“Our world is incomplete until each of us discovers what moves us—our passion. No other person can hear our calling. We must listen and act on it for ourselves.” ~ Richard J. Leider

“Love is the main generator of all good writing. Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.” ~ Carson McCullers

“It is impossible to drive out human passions from the human heart. You may suppress them, you may deaden them, keep them in subjection, but you cannot root them out.” ~ Mrs. Henry Ward

“I've always been passionate about these different (film) genres… and just trying to present it in a way that other people can love it as much as I do.” ~ Quentin Tarantino

“One person with passion is better than 40 people merely interested.” ~ E.M. Forster

“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark burn out in a brilliant blaze… every atom of me in magnificent glow.” ~ Jack London

“Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.” ~ Epictetus

“It’ll take a smart person with passion over someone with years of experience any day. People with intelligence and passion will get the problem solved, no matter what.” ~ Carol Bartz