Passion

Color of passion—red                        

Symbol of passion—fire

Erasmus—passion is the intelligent balance between reason and emotion.

Passion (from the Ancient Greek verb πάσχω (paskho) meaning to suffer) is a term applied to a very strong feeling about a person or thing. Passion is an intense emotion compelling feeling, enthusiasm, or desire for something.

The term is also often applied to a lively or eager interest in or admiration for a proposal, cause, or activity or love - to a feeling of unusual excitement, enthusiasm or compelling emotion, a positive affinity or love, towards a subject, idea, person, or object.--Wikipedia

Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night.  ~Terri Guillemets

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive.  And then go and do that.  Because what the world needs are people who have come alive.  ~Attributed to Howard Thurman

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough.  You must want it with an exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.  ~Sheila Graham

The opposite of passion—boredom.

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.—Oprah Winfrey

If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you. ~  T. Alan Armstrong

Passion requires focused direction, and that direction must come from three other areas: your purpose, your talents, and your needs. ~  Steve Pavlina

A musician can play perfect technically, but without passion the music is mere noise. It has no feeling. The passion of the piece is expressed through the passion of the one who performs it. Passion can be seen as well as heard.

Passion is what keeps our lives from boredom. The amount of passion in a person’s life is relative to the amount of boredom. A person with a great amount of passion is so focused on the thing they are passionate about it almost consumes them. You can see it in their eyes, their actions, and hear it in their words. What do they seem to talk about most? Their passion makes them animated when they are talking about it. This feeling of excitement draws others to them, almost as if they too want to share the fire from the torch of passion. It can be like the Olympic torch carried around the world.

The Bible has a verse that says, “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” I say, where there is no passion, the people perish. They have no goal in life, and in fact, some see no reason for living. Granted, passion requires a lot from a person. It requires commitment, work, and sometimes self-sacrifice. What kind of a musician would Mozart have been, or what would the world have been like if Marie Curie had not followed her passion? We complain about being just another cog in the wheel of life, but we don’t have to be “just another cog”. Think. What is it that you love? Is it something that you could be passionate about? Look for your passion. Light your torch. Lead the way. Make a difference. Most likely you will need to start small, but hold onto that torch, even if it is raining. Thomas Edison learned from all the failures he had trying to invent the light bulb, but we now have incandescent light because he kept going. It will not always be smooth sailing. An Olympic athlete trains for years to just get a chance to compete.

Perhaps you can find another person that shares your passion and you can make the journey together. What is important is to make that journey. Boredom saps your energy and makes it difficult to get up in the morning. Not so when you have a passion to follow. So, find your passion and get going.