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