“Finding and creating your life's work, even if it is entirely different from what you have done most of your life, will bring you more happiness and health than any other action you can take. If your primary responsibility in life is being true to yourself, that can only be accomplished by carrying out what you are called to do - your unique and special vocation...Your life's work involves doing what you love and loving what you do.” IfsLoveLifeDifferentDoneMotivationalActionHappinessLife IsPassionPeaceWorkResponsibilitySpecialHealthCallingFindingsCreatingUniqueBeing TrueAfrican AmericanPrimariesAccomplishedUniquenessVocationWhat You LoveBe True To YourselfTrue To YourselfMotivational WorkDoing What You LoveLoving What You DoResponsibilities In LifeCreating Your Life Author:Dennis Kimbro
“Swimming is my passion and something that I love. Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me. I go out there and train as hard as anybody else. I have the same dreams, the same goals. It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.” IfsFeelsLooksStillsDifferentMatterHardDreamPassionGoalWaterTrainSwimmingGoing OutMy Passion Author:Natalie du Toit
“You and I have formerly seen warm debates and high political passions. But gentlemen of different politics would then speak to each other and separate the business of the Senate from that of society. It is not so now. Men who have been intimate all their lives, cross the streets to avoid meeting, and turn their heads another way, lest they should be obliged to touch their hats. This may do for young men with whom passion is enjoyment. But it is afflicting to peaceable minds. Tranquility is the old man's milk.” MenWayShouldMindMayHas BeensDifferentYoungPoliticalTurnsPassionSpeakStreetsCrossesMeetingsWarmDebateYoung ManIntimateGentlemanEnjoymentHatsOld ManMilkSenateTranquilityAnother WayObliged Author:Thomas Jefferson
“How different the peace of God from that of the world! It calms the passions, preserves the purity of the conscience, is inseparable from righteousness, unites us to God and strengthens us against temptations. The peace of the soul consists in an absolute resignation to the will of God.” WorldDifferentSoulPassionPeaceConscienceAbsolutesCalmGods WillTemptationPreservesPurityRighteousnessInseparableResignation Book:Spiritual Progress Source: Spiritual Progress
“And in these four things, opinion of ghosts , ignorance of second causes, devotion towards what men fear , and taking of things casual for prognostics , consisteth the natural seed of religion ; which by reason of the different fancies, judgments and passions of several men, has grown up into ceremonies so different, that those which are used by one man, are for the most part ridiculous to another.” MenDifferentReasonUsedPassionCausesNaturalOpinionFourIgnoranceJudgmentSeedsRidiculousGhostDevotionFancyOne ManCeremonyCasual Book:Leviathan Source: Leviathan
“From the same it proceedeth,that men gives different names, to one and the same thing, from the difference of their own passions: As they that approve a private opinion, call it Opinion; but they that mislike it, Haeresie: and yet haeresie signifies no more than private opinion; but has only agreater tincture of choler” MenGivingDifferentPassionNamesDifferencesOpinionDifferent Names Book:Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition Source: Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition
“We sit here, very different each from the other, until the passion arrives to give us our equality, to make us part of the play, to make the play part of us.” GivingDifferentPlayPassion Author:Muriel Rukeyser