passionate energy Quotes

The energy born of love is creative - it makes everything it touches new. To see how passionate you are, look around at what you have created.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

Gargoyles were the complement to saints; Leonardo's caricatures were complementary to his untiring search for ideal beauty. And gargoyles were the expression of all the passions, the animal forces, the Caliban gruntings and groanings which are left in human nature when the divine has been poured away. Leonardo was less concerned than his Gothic predecessors with the ethereal parts of our nature, and so his caricatures, in their expression of passionate energy, merge imperceptibly into the heroic.

I think the key to passion, to zeal, is gratitude. Or to put it another way, the fuel to motivate is gratitude.

I was full of fire when I was young. I wanted to attack anything.

Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment.

I was very focused, driven, rigid, work-oriented. I didn't care about having a family or making a home. I didn't think about kids. It's not that I didn't want those things, I just didn't think about them. And then I had someone who came in as a tornado, this creative, beautiful ball of insane energy and passion. And it completely opened me up.