Michael Morpurgo Quotes

My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

The basic answer is that I wasn't happy or fulfilled by the job I had and I wanted my life to mean something to me, so I searched my life experience and realized that acting and performing were activities that I enjoyed all aspects of.

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.

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

I'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me.

You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.

The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

My life is better with every year of living it.

I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense.

I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.

I had lost my way for some time, so I need to do things that I am happy with. It's not about being the number one heroine or money. It's about doing roles that I enjoy. My biggest ambition is happiness.

I just live my life.

I'm following my dreams and doing what I love as a designer. I did not want to be one of those kids with a famous last name that doesn't do anything. That is very unfulfilling to me and I'm very happy.

I had to get into a place for myself of thinking what I would create for myself if I didn't have to worry about making money.

I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

I think that's one of the things that's missing in a lot of people's lives. That's finding out what works for you and doing that.

There's so much more to life than just being healthy. There's so much more to life than just being normal.

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

Fighting for happiness is the hardest thing you'll ever fight for, but it's the only thing worth fighting for.

Happiness is not on my list of priorities. I just deal with day-to-day things. If I'm happy, I'm happy – and if I'm not, I don't know the difference... Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be – that's much more important than just being happy.

The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.

Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings you the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run.