The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
The pleasure of love is in loving, and we are happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire.
Just as rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, so passion breaks through an uncultivated mind.
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Set your house on fire with divine love, and warm yourself by the golden blaze.
Even the finest cooking pot will never produce a feast without fire beneath it.
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.
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