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- None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- Strive for excellence, not perfection.
- H. Jackson Brown Jr., O Magazine, December 2003
- It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
- Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
- There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.
- Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005), O Magazine, September 2003
- Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'
- Sue Halpern, O Magazine, September 2003
- Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2003
- Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
- Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
- Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
- Georg Wilhelm, O Magazine, September 2003
- The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.
- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), Gaudy Night
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