Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

I'm very lucky that I love what I do. I've never thought of it as work. I've never done it for the money.

I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.

I'm grateful for every chance I get to do something I love and have a passion for.

I wouldn't change my life for anything. I am exactly where I want to be and have no plans to ever retire.

For years and years I have done the work I was born for.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what it is that you really are about. And then when you find it, if you're lucky enough to be in a position to do what it is that you love, it becomes easy. I'm blessed that I ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do.

When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.

It's an amazing blessing to do something you love.

You remember our talk about purpose and meaning?" he asked me, the smile disappearing. "Well, I think this might be mine. I think this is what I was meant to do, Georgina.

Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.

Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.

...we make our lives by what we love.

A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.

I want to be in love with what I do at all times, and I want to stay in love.

If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work.

Make sure you love what you do or it will eat you alive.

I carry on singing because I love it. The closer you are to the end, the more you understand how important it is.

Life: my favorite occupation.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

The joy of life is in the work.

I'm an actor, so sometimes there are moments where I think about everything that's happening and I want to cry. I'm doing what I love and I will be doing it for a very, very long time - and it's amazing. A lot of people don't get to do that.

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.