Tom Hodgkinson Quotes

If you're just saying, hey, I'm doing this. I'm working to make money. I'm working to increase my status. If that's all there is, I think you will find out that it's meaningless.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.

I love what I do, and I'm not doing anything either for money or for the sake of some unfulfilled ambition.

In the end, I need to be fulfilled in my work - that's more important than the money.

Many people in their teens wonder about these big questions - what's the meaning of life, what are we doing here - then somewhere in their 20s, they seem to say, 'I'll just get married. I'll just have kids. I'll get back to that later.' But they never do. For me, it kept boiling.

I'm just interested in carving out a meaningful life.

LIFE is WORTH LIVING when you find PURPOSE.

I love my life, because I’ve seen my purpose.

The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.

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

What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy.

Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.

I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience 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.

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.

I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?'

A lot of people are simply interested in exploring their own spirituality, their own values, who they are, whether they're happy where they are.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

It shouldn't just be about money. It should be about loving what you do.

If you've done what you need to do, you need to go bury yourself, because what else are you going to do? I think that that's where life stops.

Marriage is a linchpin in many women's lives, but many other things can create a satisfying life. I adore my career. It stretches every physical, emotional, and intellectual muscle I have.

I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.