David Augsburger Quotes

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

Any fool can be happy. What I'm interested in is satisfaction. There's got to be more to life than just being happy. You've got to be fulfilled. You've got to be satisfied; philosophically satisfied is what I mean.

My ambition is to be happy.

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.

The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I had both. How wonderful it was to be me.

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

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.

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.

The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it.

..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.

To be happy--one must find one's bliss

The happiest people are the ones who follow their own dreams most closely.

The secret to a happy life is to recognize that no matter what the situation, there's a creative opportunity in it. Also, finding meaning and purpose in your life to make a contribution.

The money, the fame, if that comes, that's fantastic. But at the end of the day, my aim is to go to sleep at night content and have a purpose, and to know that I'm not swapping my life for money and some mind-numbing boring job, making easy money and protecting my brain.

I realised success as an actor alone wouldn't make me happy. I needed to explore my spiritual side in more depth.

I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose.

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

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.

I feel like I'm exactly where I should be.

I want to live a full life - period.

The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day.

When I see people that are my age and reaching 50, the ones that are really sparkly and full of joy are the ones that are committed to something bigger than themselves.

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.

Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel complete and full. That is success. And it isn't dependent on anyone else.