Passion

"If you have ever felt such tremendous enthusiasm and desire for something that you would gladly spend all your waking hours working on it, that you would happily do without pay, then you have found your passion."
-- Sharon Cook & Graciela Sholander

Passion, often used in vocabulary, seldom found in reality. I am fortunate to have found the means and the strength to surrender completely to my passion. But I have seen too many people giving up on what they are passionate about for a want of time, energy, means or even a lack of character. I feel sorry for them. I believe everyone should have that one thing in their lives that consumes them entirely, possesses them, gives them the push to stretch beyond their capability and the intoxication that comes with it! Found some of these quotes online for inspiration, i hope it helps you as it has helped me

Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.
-- Martha Graham

If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.
-- T. Alan Armstrong

If you have ever felt such tremendous enthusiasm and desire for something that you would gladly spend all your waking hours working on it, that you would happily do without pay, then you have found your passion.
-- Sharon Cook & Graciela Sholander

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
-- Rebecca West

Making sure our goals are properly aligned with our passions only makes sense.
-- Josh Hinds

Never underestimate the power of passion.
-- Eve Sawyer

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
-- Denis Diderot

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
-- W. Eugene

Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow... Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead.
-- Joss Whedon

Passion that is so deep within that all we need to do is release the passion inside so that we become energized with a newness that all will want to share in.
-- M. Lee

So try to pursue the very things that you are passionate about- that is the difference between good and great!
-- Shawn Doyle

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
-- Elizabeth Hardwick

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
-- Earl Nightingale

The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
-- Yves Saint Laurent

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.
-- Sue Grafton

With out passion you don't have energy, with out energy you have nothing.
-- Donald Trump

When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible.
-- Nancy Coey