1055 – “There are two basic motivating forces: Fear and Love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”

-John Lennon [Attributed]

966 – “Ich habe keine besondere Begabung, sondern bin nur leidenschaftlich neugierig.”

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”

-Albert Einstein

868 – “I want a soulmate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t already know, and make me laugh. I don’t care what you look like, just turn me on.”

–Henry Rollins

822 – “If you can’t figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For it will lead you right into your purpose.”

–Thomas D Jakes [Attributed]

730 – “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”

–anonymous

650 – “I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”

–F Scott Fitzgerald referring to his soon to be wife, Zelda Sayre

638 – “To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.”

–Ludwig van Beethoven [Attributed, likely apocryphal; See Source Notes for more info]

478 – Definition of Love from 1690s Advice Column

“Q: What’s love?

A: Love, and you’ll know … We’ll give you the best description we can of that passion, which we have some reason to know … ‘Tis a mixture of friendship and desire, bounded by the rules of honor and virtue … Love, being a medium between pure friendship and perfect desire, ’tis warm enough to keep friendship from an ague, but not so furiously hot as to set all on fire. They manage matters so between ’em, that the sweet melts the strong; and from this agreeable mixture or harmony, especially where reciprocal, result the tenderest, noblest pleasure that’s purely humane. …”

–A Member of the Athenian Society

[Note this quote has been edited for clarity and length, the quote in its entirety can be found in the original source posted below]

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387 – “Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.”

–Alphonse Karr

187 – “A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.”

–Robert Oxton Bolt