I wrote these thinking of the people who might not understand why some women and men work much harder than average, seemingly nowhere in appearance but inside, to somewhere outstanding in their heart. We should never be blamed for devoting ourselves to our true, core and most stimulating self. – OB. 
1. Of all the things you do, what you did with passion is what people will remember.
2. Passion starts with being true to what you do and ends with it being true to what you are.
3. Until you discover your own passions for life, you are living someone else’s.
4. Passion is like dancing on the music everyone hears but only few truly listen.
5. Passion is where you put your heart first, as you rose today.
6. Living every minute with passion is possible, it is living from our own sustainable energy.
7. Mastery in any art always starts with technique and but can only end with passion.
8. For all the things we set ourselves to live for, greatness comes from knowing that other people once died for them.
9. With passion and vision, the means always come, and without, never.
10. Some passions, like the passion for learning, are actually another way of defining wisdom.
11. Passion is like the passion in love, there would be nothing without it.
12. Thinking with passion is loving what you’re going to say, before you say it.
13. Resisting our passions is accepting their weaknesses.
14. All passions start in the dark side of us, where we are unsure yet.
15. Without facing our passions, there is no living them.
16. Whatever does not exist is simply something we have not desired enough yet.
17. The world always offers two choices: passion or an image of passion.
18. We achieve more for a passion than we do simply for a goal.
19. Passion is like our capital, we can choose to work towards building it.
20. Passion is always where our greatest potential is.
21. We can never think too much if we are truly passionate.
22. Dance the game of life, but learn to appreciate the music first.
23. There is no true listening, doing or creating, without genuine passion for it.
24. Passion is where duty and pleasure meet.
24bis. When creating with passion, we create both the fruit of our work and its impact.
Photo courtesy of: “Spanish Revival”: Jessica Stam for Harper’s Bazaar, August 2010
12 comments
Until you discover your own passions for life, you are living someone else’s.
It’s absolutely true, coz i’m still trying to find mine;)
Thnx Oliver for these just amazing words
All the thoughts are wise and right… but what a photo, what a brilliant picture!!
Love your words! Thank you so much~ =(^w^)=
PASSION cannot be contained in 24 short thoughts,it is ever-expanding in your heart Olivier
monica
amazing!!:) i wonder how you discovered your passion in life! I’m still searching for mine.
It makes me glad to see so many passionate people. That’s what changes the world.
Passion is an intense word, it can’t be used lightly. It empties and fulfills us, it leads through the path of “Pathos”, of everything we FEEL, from suffering to enjoying, from hating to loving… It’s everything… The road of our lives.
I like how you speak about it, it shows you feeling and understanding how it develops. It’s essential to know what our passion is. And once we’re clear on what passionates us we should follow that always, and never let it be anything else but our priority.
For me this subject is passionate and invigorating, thanks for sharing your short thoughts =)
Luis
woa! that’s jessica stam on the photo! she is so beautiful! I love her and her blue eyes! ?
and about your text – speachless!
LOL
all I can say is that I enterly agree with you! It’s so beautiful and it is so…. passionate
congrats Olivier!
No one has reached fulfillment in anything in life, without passion. Passion does not care about budget, logistics, adversity, cliches, luck. It supersedes them all.
I always thought that passion is essence for anything you do in life… Sometimes, we betray our passions by being diverted into wrong directions, but as I discovered lately, it is never too late to return to your true passions in life… I love all the above quotes.
Passion!! The very word makes my heart pound!! Yes I have found the true escence of life is passio.Not a word,gesture,thought,movement,is truly mastered without this incedible feeling,this burning desire to conquer to give to love!!! Being a passionate person can only draw to you energy,positivity,wellness,excitement!! Thrilling adventures,the possiblities when passion is your guide are endless.So yes,as Olivier says,let’s dance hear the music participate with all your passion!!!! Life is to be lived and only with passion can you fully enjoy your work or play or love!!! My favorite piece so far and the most compleling!!! I’m PASSIONATE about PASSION! Haha wonderful words.Excellent!!
interesting, thanks
WOW!!! Amazing words Olivier, beautiful, precise and obviously from the heart, you have a wonderful soul my friend xxx <3