Terry Brooks Quotes

Not everyone has a purpose.

I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people feel that they're treading water -- that if they vanished in smoke, it wouldn't mean anything at all in this world. And that's a despairing and destructive feeling. It'll kill you.

To work is to feel alive.

Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: 'who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing?' To feel fulfilment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Working is living to me.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

If I cannot sing, I have the impression that I no longer exist. I mean it. I mean that I am not physically there.

Work has been the central column for most of my life; it has always been my identity.

I don't have much in life but my work is what makes me alive.

I wouldn't be alive without my work.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

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

You are -- your life, and nothing else.

A man must have something to cling to. Without that he is as a pea vine sprawling in search of a trellis.... I was all asprawl, clinging to Beauty, which is a very restless trellis.

I think I've already got the main thing I've always wanted, which is to be somebody, to have an identify. I'm Althea Gibson, the tennis champion. I hope it makes me happy.

Work, work, work, but what mark do we leave, what point do we make? People who are too beholden to work become like erasers: as things move forward, they leave in their wake no trace of themselves.

Are You Living or Just Existing?" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.

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.

I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world and out. I want to keep being myself and mind the work that minds me. Work is not always a hard thing that looms over your years. Sometimes, work is the gift of the world to the wanting.

The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.

I hope that my work makes a difference because I think that's why I do it.

I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not do, wishing we were outside or simply elsewhere, wishing we were reading, thinking, making love, fishing, sleeping, or simply having time to figure out who the hell we are and what the hell we're doing.