Rate your individual acts as good or bad, if you like. Seek to perform as many good ones, and as few bad ones, as possible. - Oliver Burkeman

passion is the feeling you get from mastering a skill, not some magical quality unrelated to hard work:

The greatest achievements often involve remaining open to serendipity, seizing unplanned opportunities, or riding unexpected bursts of motivation. To be delighted by another person, or moved by a landscape or a work of art, requires not being in full control.

In an age of attention scarcity, the greatest act of good citizenship may be learning to withdraw your attention from everything except the battles you've chosen to fight.