Anais Nin:
The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.

Eleanor Roosevelt:
It is so much easier to be enthusiastic than to reason!

Ella Wheeler Wilcox:
Passion is what the sun feels for the earth / When harvests ripen into golden birth.

George Eliot:
There's no blameless life / Save for the passionless.

George Sand:
We must have passion in life.

Mary Kay Ash:
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Rachel Field:
There's plenty of fire in the coldest flint!

Sarah Scott:
How little do they know human nature, who think they can say to passion, so far shalt thou go, and no farther!

Susan Rabin:
Enthusiasm is contagious. Be a carrier.

Colette:
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

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