Fiona Shaw Quotes

Getting in touch with your life purpose is important.

I'm not sure yet what my higher mission is, but I have a feeling it might be great. Before, I thought my mission was death, but now my mission is life.

I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.

Basically, I feel fortunate to have realized what the goal is in life. There's no point in dying having gone through your life without knowing who you are, what you are, or what the purpose of life is. And that's all it is.

Many people in their teens wonder about these big questions - what's the meaning of life, what are we doing here - then somewhere in their 20s, they seem to say, 'I'll just get married. I'll just have kids. I'll get back to that later.' But they never do. For me, it kept boiling.

I was lucky enough to know exactly what I wanted to do when I was growing up. I think one of the hardest things to figure out in life is what your calling is, and what truly makes you happy - not what you want to work at, but what you want to do.

We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.

I had moved back to Kenya after undergrad, and I went through this crisis of, 'What is my life going to be about?'

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

If you've done what you need to do, you need to go bury yourself, because what else are you going to do? I think that that's where life stops.

I don't know what you're going through life doing if you're not really trying to collect some really great memories.

Make your life a mission - not an intermission.

The best path through life is the highway.

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

For me, since I have a life wish, not a death wish, for me, I was not gambling my life. I was doing something much more beautiful. I was carrying my life across.

The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.

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

I had always wanted to belong, and I had been thinking that this was going to get solved when I had money, and instead, I had no idea how I wanted to live my life. And no one teaches you what to do after you achieve financial independence. So I had to confront that.

You can end up living your life pretty incrementally, and that's boring.

I had money, but I still didn't know what to do with my life.

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

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

I haven't really had much to do with my life. All I've done is take part in it.

He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.