Celebrating our passions and achievements

Kate Winslet’s director for their upcoming film “The Holiday,” Nancy Meyers says ''The only other person I've ever seen love acting that much is Jack Nicholson.''

Psychiatrist Kay Redfield Jamison talks about passion in terms of enthusiasm. In her book Exuberance : The Passion for Life, she wants people to “appreciate how life-saving exuberance is to us as a species... A passion for life, an exuberant temperament, allows people to do things they wouldn't be able to do if they didn't have it," Jamison says.

Susan Orlean says in her book The Orchid Thief, “I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty but full of possibility."

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