Scott Derrickson Quotes

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 spent many years seeking self-awareness and wondering what I should be doing on this planet.

In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

A celebrity life can be very fast-paced, and it can be hard to find meaning in it. I believe that everyone is looking for the answers, but the answers are within ourselves.

We can all afford to do a little soul-searching about the choices we make and the way we live our lives, but sometimes searching one's soul doesn't provide the answers we seek.

We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

I know what really matters in my life.

Write down the area of your life that most needs your attention right now and then write out all the details you saw of your soul's vision for this part of your life. What will that part of your life look like? How will achieving your goal change your life? How will it change the life of those around you? When you reach your goal, when you fulfill that desire, what will it make room for? Write that all down.

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

I don't believe I have a mission. Sometimes I really have a spiritual need to say something more general about the world, and sometimes something personal.

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

I've got a lot of opportunities, a lot of love in my life, a lot of things going for me. Still, it's not complete. I know this is not the whole thing. There's much more.

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.

It was fun; you know, at this point in my life it's like, I want to do stuff that's meaningful.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.

Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on developing greater lovingkindness and compassion.

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

Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities. Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.