Love What You Do

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy.
I can’t figure it out.
What am I doing right?
( Charles Schulz )

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition.
It asks too little of yourself, and it will leave you unfulfilled.
( Barack Obama )

If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
( François de La Rochefoucauld )

We live in an age where we put superficial personality skills above deeper virtues.

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly.
Do not mistake activity for achievement.
( Mabel Newcomber )

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
( Barack Obama )

We live in age where people are judged not by who they are but how they present themselves.

I consider those are rich who are doing something they feel worthwhile and which they enjoy doing.
( Eleanor Roosevelt )

In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.
( Dorothea Dix )

To love what you do and feel that it matters, how could anything be more fun?
( Katharine Graham )

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.
This makes it hard to plan the day.
( E. B. White )

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
( Emil Cioran )

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.
( Parker J. Palmer )

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.
It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
( Norman Cousins )

Always believe something wonderful is going to happen, even with all the ups and downs.
Never take a day for granted.
Cherish the little things and hug the ones you love.

Those who are happiest don’t always have the best, but they always make the best of what they do have.
( Rose Winfold )

Small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
( Jesus )

Perhaps they are not the stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.
( Florence Emily Hookins, 1896-1962 )

Some people walk into our life and make it better.
Others walk out and make it better still.
( Eileen Hutchison, 1926-2008 )

Wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction..
And many enter through it.
( Jesus )

Some people make me really happy.
By not being around.

Many look for power or wealth or love.
But not the answers to their biggest questions.
( R S Hutchison )

A true friend warms you with their presence, trusts you with their secrets, and remembers you in their prayers.
( Alfred Hookins, 1892-1956 )

If you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty, and it is you who are that poverty.
( Jesus )

A good friend may be angry with you for so many things but will always stick around.
( Rose Winfold )

Recognise what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you.
( Jesus )

The old folk often forget, and the young folk often don’t know.
( Florence Emily Hookins, 1896-1962 )

Many people change, some for good and some for bad, but they forget to tell anyone.
( R S Hutchison )

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. 
( Francois De La Rochefoucauld )

A good friend will hold you up when you can’t stand.
Will wipe away the tears when you cry.
And will fight for you whatever.
( Rose Winfold )

A good friend may not be able to fix your problems, but they will make sure you don’t face them alone.
( Rose Winfold )

None of us are perfect, but we are all original.

A true friend sees the pain in your eyes, while everyone else sees only the smile on your face.
( Elizabeth Florence Hutchison )

If you treat me like a game, I will show you how it’s played, and I will beat you.
( Eileen Hutchison, 1926-2008 )

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.
( Kurt Cobain )

And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear.
What we need is here.
( Wendell Berry )

The greatest emotional need of many is just to feel appreciated.
( Elizabeth Florence Hutchison )

The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there.
This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.
( Martin Amis )

I don’t care how impossible it seems.
( David Byrne )

It ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive.
( Bruce Springsteen )

The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.
The more we say thanks, the more we find to be thankful for.
And the more we find to be thankful for, the happier we become.
We don’t give thanks because we’re happy.
We are happy because we give thanks.
( Douglas Wood )

Whether a thought is spoken or not, it is a real thing and has powers of reality.
( Frank Herbert )

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
( Mark Twain )

When we are not bound to any ideology, religious, political or otherwise, we are free to move to new understandings.
( Rose Winfold )

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
( Anais Nin )

In the times of trouble, be like the strong wall.
In the times of joy, be like the smiling sun.
( Santosh Kalwar )

Being truthful when you know it will cost you is the true test of honesty.
( Dave Weinbaum )

Look inside yourself.
Everything that you want, you are already that.
( Rumi )

It’s easy to forget things you don’t need anymore.
( Haruki Murakami )

If you are in the right place, at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done, that is enough.
( R S Hutchison )

If you fuel your journey on the enthusiasm of others, you are going to run out of gas.
( Rosen Topuzov )

Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure.
( Habeeb Akande )

Winners love to see other people win.
( Chalene Johnson )

If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you’re already halfway down.
( Tana French )

Success is not money, cars, fame or material possessions but the lives you touched positively.
( Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha )

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.
( Martin Luther )

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
( Billy Sunday )

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now.
It’s not your neighbour right or left, and it’s not God or the devil.
It’s you.
( Edwin Louis Cole )

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.
( Billy Graham )

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.
( Camille Claudel )

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible.
God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
( Fyodor Dostoevsky )

Be good, do good.
The devil wields no power over a good man.
( Harry Segall )