Thomas Merton Quotes

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.

When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.

I'm very lucky that I love what I do. I've never thought of it as work. I've never done it for the money.

The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.

A calling is the place where your gifts, abilities, desires, and feelings of worth all meet. When you follow your calling, you feel at home, at peace - you feel as though you're where you're meant to be.

I love working. I love it! It makes me feel awake and alive and appreciative, as does my family, but in a different way. If I was told I couldn't do it, I think I would wither and die.

If you're not working on something you're passionate about, it's a long, hard road.

When I started making music, I was like, 'This is something I can believe I was meant to do.'

Life's too short to be spending all your waking hours doing something you're not excited about. And when people are that excited, you can see it in the work.

One of the things my dad told me when I was growing up was, 'Find your calling. Find what you're meant to do.' When I found animation, I knew this was it.

Not everyone has a Life's Work. Some people simply have a Life.

I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.

Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.

They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.

My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life

Do what brings you joy, and your purpose will unfold.

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

Retiring isn't even a word I'd understand. Taking what makes you feel alive, and everyone's looking for ways of making them feel alive, in whatever they do - relationships, business or work - and not just being a voice for a money making business.

My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.

I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.

I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.

I want to be in love with what I do at all times, and I want to stay in love.

If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work.

Make sure you love what you do or it will eat you alive.