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

World Life Persons Action Moving Passion Acting Inspirational Life Listening Calling Our World Incomplete

Book:The Power of Purpose: Creating Meaning in Your Life and Work: Easyread Edition

Source: The Power of Purpose: Creating Meaning in Your Life and Work: Easyread Edition

“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.”

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”

“Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.”

Love Life Inspirational Romance Spirit Desire Passion Marriage Wings Deeds Desire Love

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.”

Life Soul Pain Passion Water Pleasure Breaths Wave Bark Pain And Pleasure What Is Life Wavering Troubled Waters

Book:Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard

Source: Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard

“Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.”

“Most people didn't pursue their passions simply because of the promise of a paycheck. They pursued them because they couldn't imagine doing anything else with their lives.”

People Life Motivational Purpose Passion Wealth Money Imagine Promise Pursue Fulfillment Pursued Paychecks

Book:The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Enthusiasm, if fueled by inspiration and perseverance, travels with passion and its destination is excellence.”

Ifs Life Inspiration Passion Excellence Perseverance Enthusiasm Destination

Author:Napoleon Hill

“The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life.... My life began by flickering out.”

Life Passion Fire Trouble Apathy Redeeming

Author:Ivan Goncharov

“The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.”

Life Heart Soul Motivational Jobs Purpose Passion Work Fulfillment Heart And Soul

Book:Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

“What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where we are drest for this short Comedy.”

Life Play Mother Passion House Comedy Our Lives Division Womb Mirth

Book:Sir Walter Raleigh: Selected Prose and Poetry

Source: Sir Walter Raleigh: Selected Prose and Poetry

“I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge to action, inventiveness, performance, order all alternate and keep their orbit; cheerfulness, vigor, energy, flexibility and fatigue, serenity as well as desire. Nothing disturbs the cycle for I lead a simple life, but I must still find the time and order in which I rotate.”

“To have meaning, our lives require both passion and purpose. A life without passion is like a furnace without fuel, and without purpose, like a ship without a rudder.”

Life Purpose Passion Our Lives Ships Fuel Furnaces Rudders

Author:Mardy Grothe

“There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.”

Men Life Young Passion Three Middle Appetite Three Things Middle Aged Covetousness

Author:Confucius

“We are like vessels tossed on the bosom of the deep; our passions are the winds that sweep us impetuously forward; each pleasure is a rock; the whole life is a wide ocean. Reason is the pilot to guide us, but often allows itself to be led astray by the storms of pride.”

Life Reason Whole Life Is Passion Pleasure Rocks Wind Pride Ocean Storm Wide Guides Whole Life Pilots Vessel Bosoms

Author:Pietro Metastasio

“I decided I didn't want to be a slave to any passion any more except for my work, i had too many passions - bridge, horses, gambling. I want to live a different kind of life, be with my family more because I didn't give them enough time.”

Want Life Giving Kind Different Enough Life Is Passion My Family Decided Horse Slave Bridges Gambling Different Kinds Enough Time Be A Slave

Author:Omar Sharif