Begin asking how you may be of service and you will soon discover that the true gift is in your giving.

Desire. Enthusiasm. Purpose. Pleasure. Delight. Peace. Power. However you define passion, it is at the heart of your motivation.

Feeling passion fuels your spirit and feeds your joy.

Passion is a catalyst for action and provides you with the emotional stamina to stick with it, regardless of the obstacles.

Every day should have threads of passionate pursuits within it.

What turns you on, tunes you in, and lights your fire?

When passion is lit, the fire permeates your being with the positive expectation that all is well and everything will turn out great.

To be truly satisfied that your life is well-lived, the object of your passion is something you feel you must be, do, or have. What lights your fire?

Passion is not just about the object of your focus or desires—it is the compelling emotion, fulfillment, and intense enthusiasm that it engenders.

Are you impressed when you meet people who are filled with passion and conviction? Their energy is contagious and can make us all want “some of what they’re having!

When a person exudes passion, it is evident that they love what they are doing. Their passion projects an aura of confidence and decisiveness.

The Lord doesn't want anybody in His house who has to be dragged there.

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

Behold the life at ease; it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course.

We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)

If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean.

The most important choice you make is what you choose to make important.

" [Donald] Trump may indeed be a little fascistic."New York Times wrote.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before.

Once I stopped trying to always do everything my way, and once I asked for God's help, things have truly gone a different direction.