Inspiring Quotes 1

Work You Are Passionate About

Finding work that pays you to work with the things you love is at the heart of work you are passionate about.

What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.

- Sanaya Roman

We create our own world with the ingredients we put into it, so take care with your recipe.

- Greg Phillips

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

- Rumi

Things You Love Quotes

And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty ... and at last know what the essence of beauty is.

- Plato

Called the "furniture of the uni.verse", things are whatever we take them to be.

- Hilde S. Hein, The Art Gallery In Transition

Yet for better or worse we love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them.

- Junichiro Tanizaki

The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.

- Veronique Vienne

...[but what you define as "ordinary" can be full of bliss, elevating the rhythm of your life so that what used to be extraordinary is now a normal part of your day.]

Is it incon.grew.us that I love things as much as ideas and find them equally attractive? I believe these are not in.come.pat.ible affections; for objects, as I understand them, are ideas reified. From a philosophical perspective, particular things, including embodied structures, physical states, actions and events, are actualized thought.

- Hilde S. Hein, The Art Gallery In Transition

Some things You Love

"Beethoven … when he looked at a piano he just knew how it worked."

- Good Will Hunting (movie)

Has that ceiling ever made you want to cry? {you gotta see the movie to get it ...}

- Last Holiday (movie)

He was by his nature a lover of literature, of learning and of reading.

- Plutarch speaking of Alexander The Great

Chocolate is no ordinary food. It is not something you can take or leave, something you like only, moderately. You don't like chocolate. You don't even love chocolate. Chocolate is something you have an affair with.

- Geneen Roth

Much serious thought has been devoted to the subject of chocolate: What does chocolate mean? Is the pursuit of chocolate a right or a privilege? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will?

- SAndra Boy.n.ton

Don't you wake up some mornings just in the mood to buy a fine piece of glass?

- John Travolta imitating Nicholas Cage

A medium vodka dry Martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken but not stirred.

- Ian Fleming

An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

- Will Rogers

"Ok, now, Charlie, I'm gonna show you the most beautiful thing in the world. Do you know what it is?" - A shoe. "A lot of people would say it'd be an oak tree in spring ... Lot of people would say it'd be a field of woodland flowers. Do you know what I think it is Charlie?" - A shoe. " I think its a shoe!"

- Kinky Boots (movie) ... read more about shoes, their importance

If shoes weren't so important, people would not be measured in feet.

- Shoe ad

Books are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

- Dorothy L. Sayers

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

- Katherine Mansfield

Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings, these are a few of my favorite things.

- The Sound of Music (movie)

An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

- Will Rogers

Tea and books - Mmmmmm, two of life's exquisite pleasures that together bring near-bliss.

- Christine Hanrahan

Daffodils! Green meadows … skies full of stars
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things.

Cream colored ponies and crisp apple strudel
Door bells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
These are a few of my favorite things.

Girls in white dresses with blue sating sashes
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Silver white winters that melt into springs
These are a few of my favorite things

- The Sound of Music (movie)