Make Every Day A Holiday » definition http://makeeverydayaholiday.com take a bite out of life Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:00:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 To Be: Passionate http://makeeverydayaholiday.com/to-be-passionate/ http://makeeverydayaholiday.com/to-be-passionate/#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:08:50 +0000 Kelley Taylor http://makeeverydayaholiday.com/?p=316 Be Passionatepas•sion•ate

[pash-uh-nit]

–adjective

  1. having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid.
  2. ardently sensual.
  3. expressing, showing, or marked by intense or strong feeling; emotional.
  4. intense or vehement, as emotions or feelings.
  5. easily moved to anger; quick-tempered; irascible.

“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”
- Christian Friedrich Hebbel

passionate. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/passionate (accessed: October 20, 2008).
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[ri-zil-yuh nt]

adj.

  1. springing back; rebounding.
  2. returning to the original form or position after being bent, compressed, or stretched.
  3. recovering readily from illness, depression, adversity, or the like; buoyant.
  4. Marked by the ability to recover readily, as from misfortune.

“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”

- Bruce Lee

Source: resilient. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/resilient (accessed: September 15, 2008).
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“All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most”. – Lord Byron. 

To Be: Breathless 
As I came into this world breathless, I want to go out in the same way.

Heaven help me if I can ever just pass through this life without noticing how wonderful it is. I want to look at the world in amazement.

I never want to lose my child-like awe at how small we are in the world. I want to honor that but know that we also have an effect on this world as well.

I want to welcome the world into my arms, no matter how it comes to me, and love it for making me who I am, just as I am. I want to hold my breath with anticipated excitement wondering just what will come next.

In a word, I want to become, breathless.

May you, if you want, become breathless, too.

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