C. S. Lewis Quotes

Marrying Martin and the movement perfected my journey of discovery, soothed my yearning to pour out the values and vision within my soul.

The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

The object of living is work, experience, happiness.

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.

The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny.

My definition of success is "the fulfillment of your soul's purpose."

The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.

They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.

It seems that it is impossible to live without discovering the purpose of your life. And the first thing which a person should do is to understand the meaning of life. But the majority of people who consider themselves to be educated are proud that they have reached such great height that they cease to care about the meaning of existence.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

But really it was just, it was perfect. You know, I actually got that feeling like you know what, maybe this is why I'm alive, you know - maybe this is why I'm here on this on earth.

I know what I want, I want things for myself, but I think the key to life is somebody to love, something to do and something to look forward to. I don't think it's complicated.

You only have one life and if you're not doing what you love, what's the point?

I'm absolutely doing what I enjoy.

Real success is not, like, materialistic. It's being where you want to be when you want to be; just living your life how you feel; having an ultimate goal and being able to accomplish it.

I do things that I actually love and understand.

Every person can reach a full life.

With responsibility comes to passion, love, happiness and a purpose in life.

I'm having fun. I'm being myself. I'm doing what I love. That's all that matters.

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.

I think the serious things really are the things that make for happiness--people and things that are compatible, love.... So many people are content just to sit around and talk about them instead of getting out and attaining them. As if life were a joke of some kind.

It is not peace we seek but meaning.

Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people: those who knew what they wanted to do; those (the unhappiest) who never knew what their purpose in life was; and those who found out later on. I was in the last category, I reckoned, which didn't stop me wishing I'd been born into the first.