Ed McCaffrey Quotes

I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.

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

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

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

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

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

We want you to find that thing that will make your life better.

P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That's the human dashboard.

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

Everything I've done has been personally fun, important, and meaningful to me.

It's not like during your normal day, anyone says, 'How do having meaning in your life? How do you make meaning in your life?'

We have children to pursue other elements of well-being. We want meaning in life. We want relationships.

A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.

You only have one life and if you're not doing what you love, what's the point?

Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?

I'm relevant because I fill a void for people who aren't doing what they want to do in life.

If you do the things you enjoy and are good at, I really have a feeling that that will lead to having a fulfilling life, and people with fulfilling lives are able to be 'good people.'

Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.

My father's only advice is to 'do what makes you happy,' and I follow it religiously.

I'm very happy with where I arrived, both personally and professionally. I can say more so personally, because my career will have to end eventually. I do not know how long it will be, but eventually it will end, and the personal will continue.

Getting in touch with your life purpose is important.

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

If you don't wake up and have your own thing, whether it's writing or reading or traveling or acting or dancing or singing or being a mother or a father, something that drives you, then it's all worth nothing. One of the key elements in happiness is purpose.

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

I've found my purpose in life, definitely.