We were not sent in to this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

John Ruskin

What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person.

John Boorman

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Richard Wagner

If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

Joseph Campbell

Whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must also move the heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

As life is action and passion, it is required of us that we should share the action and passion of our time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The heart can do anything.

Moliere

We must not only educate the mind, but also the heart.

Kobi Yamada

Passion is what you need to be good, an unforgiving passion.

David Easton

Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.

Ovid

Choose life! Only that and always! At whatever risk. To let life leak out, to let it wear away by the mere passage of time, to withhold giving and spending it ... is to choose nothing.

Sister Helen Kelly

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

Dedication to excellence on any level, in any area, requires an intensity of emotional investment. Unfortunately, there are scores of people who do not make the investment - who do not feel strongly about anything.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Have the courage of your desire.

George R. Gissing

Give all to love. Obey your heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you hold back on life, life holds back on you.'

Mary Manin Morrissey

The most powerful force on earth is the human soul on fire.

Ferdinand Foch

I realized a long time ago that a belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all.

Evelyn Scott

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Kahlil Gibran

Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion.

Agnes Demille

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Marie Lloyd

At last I think I've discovered the secret: Do whatever your heart leads you to do - but do it!

Truman X. Jones

As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.

Johann Van Goethe

Be fanatics. When it comes to being, doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs.

A.M. Rosenthal

We all need something to believe in, something for which we can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. We need to feel that our life has meaning, that we are needed in this world.

Hannah Senesh

Comfort and luxury aren't the chief requirements of life; all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley

What we love and what captures our curiosity draws us forward into some place of great destiny.

Wayne Muller

Don't worry about what the world wants from you, worry about what makes you come more alive. Because what the world really needs are people who are more alive.

Lawrence Le Shan

Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You must find the passion, an unrelenting passion.

David Easton

Follow your desire as long as you live.

Ptah-Hotep

When we don't enjoy what we do, we only nick the surface of our potential.

Dennis Wholey

Are you bored with life? Tben throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. You don't have to be tired and bored. Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon.

Norman Vincent Peale

Compared to my heart's desire, the sea is a drop.

Adelia Prado

There is only one big thing - desire. And before it, when it is big, all is little.

Willa Cather

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, this you will become.

James Allen

My life is my message.

Mahatma Ghandi

Spread your love everywhere you go.

Mother Teresa

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.

St. Augustine

Any journey in life - if not done for human reasons with understanding and love - would be a very empty and lonely one.

Linda Blayne

All we really need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley

Big purposes free us from petty fretfulness and little ailments.

Ralph W. Sockman

God calls you to the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

Frederick Buechner

Dedicate your life to a cause greater than yourself, and your life will become a glorious romance and adventure.

Mack Douglas

Decide to love and do what you like.

St. Augustine

I dare you, while there is still time, to have a magnificent obsession.

William Danforth

There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. Pursue these.

Michael Nolan

Only passion, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Denis Diderot