Passion

pas·sion [pash-uhn] noun

1. any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, as love or hate.
  2. strong amorous feeling or desire; love; ardor.
 3. strong sexual desire; lust
 4. an instance or experience of strong love or sexual desire.
5. a person toward whom one feels strong love or sexual desire.

I started this blog titled Svenska Brinner. I got that title through google translate, I typed in Swedish Passion, and that is what I got. To this day, I don´t really know if the translation really fits, but I would like to think that it does, because that is how this all started.  Everything I do, I do with all of my heart, and all of my soul.


 Let´s talk about my passion for Sweden.... wow. so as of right now.. I have 37 days to go. 37 days. That is so close. it is actually unbelievably close. I think what I am trying to understand right now is... Why did my Great grandparents move here? Their brothers and sisters didnt. As I look at my family tree, they are the only ones that came here, my Pap is still alive, but he will not talk about Sweden at all, actually, I told him I was going to Sweden, and he told me I was wasting my money, and that was the ONLY thing he said, he will not talk about Sweden at all. The fact that I am being withheld information, only makes me want to know more. I am going to leave you with some of my very favorite quotes about PASSION, because if unless you are going to give something your all, unless you are going to put PASSION in what you are doing, then I guess you are just doing it for a pay check, and that is not me. When I do something, I do it because my heart is in it.

 "No matter how much you want to succeed, if you do not believe you will, then success will not happen for you." Charles M. Marcus,

 So try to pursue the very things that you are passionate about- that is the difference between good and great! Shawn Doyle

 If you have ever felt such tremendous enthusiasm and desire for something that you would gladly spend all your waking hours working on it, that you would happily do without pay, then you have found your passion." Sharon Cook and Graciela Sholander,

 Dream It Do It Follow your passion, and success will follow you. Arthur Buddhold

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion. Nadia Boulanger

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Harold Whitman

Live with passion! Anthony Robbins

"Never underestimate the power of passion." Eve Sawyer

 Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. Denis Diderot

"Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion." Hebbel

So try to pursue the very things that you are passionate about- that is the difference between good and great! Shawn Doyle

 A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. John Maxwell

 Pack all there is into your life; you only pass this way once! Sit back and think what is it you enjoy. Take courses, read books, find your passion, your 'wanna do's'." Catherine Pulsifer, Wanna Do's