John Eldredge Quotes

A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.

I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life.

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

The basic answer is that I wasn't happy or fulfilled by the job I had and I wanted my life to mean something to me, so I searched my life experience and realized that acting and performing were activities that I enjoyed all aspects of.

I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense.

To do what you wanna do, to leave a mark - in a way that you think is important and lasting - that's a life well-lived.

Everyone wants to be happy at the end of the day. If we can pursue what we really want to do, we don't get bored of life.

I had fame and wealth and things that are supposed to make you happy, but I wasn't happy, because there's no importance on having a fulfilling life. So in my mid-40s, that was my pursuit - making films that interested me, films that I would like to go see.

Success without fulfillment is failure.

It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

You're still alive. And that means you'll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really matters.

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive... To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.

Find something that feels good, that resonates with your heart.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. The purpose of life is to matter-to count, to stand for something, to have it make so difference that we lived at all.

The key is to figure out what you want out of life, not what you want out of your career.

The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern.

Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.

I also believe that few people remain completely untouched by the thought that instead of the life they lead there might also be another, where all actions proceed from a very personal state of excitement. Where actions have meanings, not just causes. And where a person, to use a trivial word, is happy, and not just nervously tormenting himself.

An unfulfilled life makes a hard man.

Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. Only of course happiness is not the same as pleasure; it includes the pain of losing as well as the pleasure of finding.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.

What you're really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.