Ian Gillan Quotes

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

There is no formula that I'm aware of for being a successful or fulfilled woman today.

We have a lot of depressed people in the world because they don't know what their purpose is in life.

I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live.

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.

Every human being has to feel a part of a tribe. It's programmed into us. And you have to feel that you're contributing to something.

There is no happiness outside of ourselves.

Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad's message made a whole lot of people feel whole again, human being again. Some of them came out and found a new meaning to their manhood and their womanhood.

People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.

I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man on the planet.

If I'm not a successful human being, who I am?

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

Everyone is looking for a purpose in life. The reason we all go to the cinema or online is because we haven't found a purpose yet. We are always wondering why we're here. But I've learned that we have to create that purpose for ourselves.

Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey.

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.

When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.

Until he has been part of a cause larger than himself, no man is truly whole.

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

There is no external means, whether it's my career, or money or house or a wife or anything, that is going to set me right.

There are some concerns that are universal. Everyone wants to be loved, and everyone wants to feel like they belong somewhere in the world. Everyone wants to do something and feel like they have a sense of purpose. These are just the things that I think about and the things that make their way into my songwriting.

Whether you're from Egypt or Argentina or Singapore or Canada, you have a need to feel important, a need to feel secure, and a need to feel loved. The culture and economics just determine how those needs are expressed.

I'm not searching for the meaning of life, but I'm looking for a meaning within my life.

Real happiness comes from discovering a sense of importance in one's actions and in one's life.

I already have success. I had it a long time ago. It's nothing to do with my music. Music is secondary, at this point. The good stuff is really good, but I have success because I'm at peace and I'm a good person in my everyday life and that's important.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.