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"Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall,
the genial flame of charity in the heart."
-- Washington Irving (1783–1859, American author

"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."
-- D. H. Lawrence

"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."
-- Howard Thurman (1900-1981), author, philosopher, theologian, educator and civil rights leader.

"Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit."
-- Mary Lou Retton

"It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion."
-- Dame Rebecca West (Best-selling Author)

"Of this I am certain, nothing great in this world was ever accomplished without passion."
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, philosopher

"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life."
-- Federico Fellini (1920–1993), Italian film-maker and director

"You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you."
-- George Lucas, film director

"By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."
-- Nikos Kazantzakis, author (1883 - 1957)

"Building a successful business is much like building a fire in the hearth. You start with an initial spark (an idea) to which you add heat (your enthusiasm), a controlled draft (your business plan) and firewood (the friends you make) at just the right rate and in the right proportions to make the fire come alive and grow into a thing of warmth and beauty for all to behold and enjoy."
-- Sharon Iezzi, Up Close and Personal

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours."
-- Ayn Rand (Russian born American Writer and Novelist, 1905-1982)

"Genius is initiative on fire."
-- Holbrook Jackson, writer and publisher

"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."
-- John Milton (1608-1674), English Poet

"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a person that you should share the passion and the action of time at peril of being judged not to have lived."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things."
-- Denis Diderot (1713-1784) French philosopher and writer

"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination."
-- Edmund Burke

"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."
-- Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881), Swiss philosopher, poet and critic

"Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing; And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes."
-- Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), On Reason and Passion

Be passionate.
When one is passionate there is a deep desire,
A fire inside. And the will to approach life's circumstances
and challenges, in a real way both to yourself and others.

To explore your creative side, express yourself,
in depth and knowledge.
There is no need to be quiet.
There is no need to hold back.

Run free and explore your life.
With perseverance, consistency.
Always listening.
The inner ability to strive on,
to proceed in power, love and a sound mind.

Be willing, be able to strive on with passion,
but let wisdom be your guide,
let understanding build character in you,
appreciate beauty, sincerity, purity.
Keep it close, never exchange it.
For it is like hidden treasure waiting to be discovered.

-- Author Unknown