Tift Merritt Quotes

I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now.

I only have room to do things that I have a love for in my life.

I urge readers to experience things that they love and give up things that are not working.

My biggest change is what is important to me, and what is not. What's worthy worrying about, and what is not. When we're younger, we tend to spend too much time worrying and going over the unnecessary. I'm no longer running the hamster wheel.

By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.

When we tend to the areas of life that are important to us, when we make those things a priority, that's when we will flourish in those areas.

It's a matter of choosing what is most important to you and putting that first. Once you have recognized your true purpose in life, this becomes much easier.

I'm just cruising, doing me, having a good time and focusing on getting better.

I don't waste my time doing my head in about stupid things that don't really matter and don't waste time worrying over nothing.

I focus on very few things in life - my work, my family, my friends. Those things are important to me and I pay good attention to them, and everything else just comes and goes.

Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

When you focus on life, on enjoying and connecting with other people, that's when work comes. When you focus on work, you can never work. I'm always going through waves of that.

I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

There is more to life than a job. I didn't ever want to look back and point to a bookshelf of videotapes and say, 'That's been my life.' It's so much easier to write a resume than it is to craft a spirit.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

I had to focus on some personal areas in my life with the little bit of privacy that I have.

Just the service aspect of running a nonprofit is so gratifying because it takes the attention off yourself. I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor. But it's really designed to focus on yourself, or it can be. So it's good to have something else to focus on that reminds you that it's not always about you.

Figure out what you really love doing and use your strengths on a daily basis.

I try to keep focused on the things that really make me happy and just do those same things.

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.

I have a life that I enjoy; I try and value the things that I think are worth valuing and everything else is icing. You know, it is a kick to go down the red carpet in that dress and then you go back home.