Following on from the news that my book, Social Anxiety Revealed will be published by Crooked Cat later this year, hence giving a big boost to my passion: raising awareness of social anxiety, I looked up quotes about passion and found these:
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
~Oprah Winfrey
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
~Benjamin Franklin
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
~Jean-Paul Sartre
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
~T. S. Eliot
Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.
~Jon Bon Jovi
I started posting one a day on Facebook. In fact I was ready to post the last one when tragedy struck in Manchester, UK, making me think again. Whatever you want to do, be passionate? I think the perpetrator of that horrendous crime was passionate, but he was passionate about the wrong thing. Considering the beliefs he held, I think it would have been better if he hadn’t been passionate about them.
So instead of posting that last quote, I wrote one of my own:
Your passion should stimulate you to help fellow humans – not harm them.
I added: “Over the last few days, I’ve been posting quotes about passion. This one is mine, inspired by Manchester and similar atrocities, perpetrated by people with the wrong sort of passion.”
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What a beautiful quote: “Your passion should stimulate you to help fellow humans – not harm them.” Thankfully, Sunday showed that people have this sort of passion in abundance.
Thank you, Helen.
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