If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.
— T. D. Jakes
Instructive My Passion quotations
Soccer is what I grew up doing - it's my passion, and I'm way more comfortable on the field in my soccer cleats.

This is my life, this is my passion, this is all I got.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.
It dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances, it dances.
It sports a mosaic of passions like a peacock’s tail, It soars to the sky with delight, it quests, Oh wildly, it dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances.
No alarm clock needed. My passion wakes me up.. !

My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminuation, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. It is reason and not passion which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate.
She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;" And the white rose weeps, "She is late;" The larkspur listens, "I hear; I hear;" And the lily whispers, "I wait."
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist.
Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents' prayers .
Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got used to it .
All that you are, all that I owe to you, justifies my love.
I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.
Since I invoke Torah so often, let me state that I don't personally believe in the God it postulates ... I am not religious, nor were the majority of the early builders of Israel believers. Yet their passion for this land stemmed from the Book of Books ... [The Bible is] the single most important book in my life.
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
Chili is not so much food as a state of mind.
Addictions to it are formed early in life and the victims never recover. On blue days in October, I get this passionate yearning for a bowl of chili, and I nearly lose my mind.

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.
I was reminded as I was reviewing my life, that I have been in too many conflicts, too many wars, political battles, military battles, civil strifes in government. And always one lesson stands out and that is, those whom you fight most passionately often turn out to be your best friends.
I think space, architectural space, is my thing.
It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

My passion for music has always inspired my designs.
One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
The purpose of all my photos is to capture the power of nature and convey it in a way that inspires someone to feel passionate and connected to the image.

It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, “I’ve wasted it!” then I would need to press all the way in, and all the way up, to the ultimate purpose of God and join him in it. If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God’s passion.
I think the whole world is dying to hear someone say, 'I love you.
' I think that if I can leave the legacy of love and passion in the world, then I think I've done my job in a world that's getting colder and colder by the day.
I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions.

I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the exact perfect situationand then BOOM! I'll explode in a light show of feeling and emotion - a pinata stuffed with tender nuances and pent-up passions
My journey wasn't just about the research, it was about finding my passion, and it was about making my own opportunities.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
My definition of success is doing what you love.
I feel many people do things because they feel they have to, and are hesitant to risk following their passion.
I love the night passionately... I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.