Dorothea Brande Quotes

An unfulfilled life makes a hard man.

No one is satisfied with their life's work.

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.

I'm very ambitious. But my overall goal, above ambition, is that I want to be happy with what I'm doing, and I want to be happy with myself.

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

The money, the fame, if that comes, that's fantastic. But at the end of the day, my aim is to go to sleep at night content and have a purpose, and to know that I'm not swapping my life for money and some mind-numbing boring job, making easy money and protecting my brain.

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

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

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

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

I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.

Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.

I hope that my life ends up being my greatest work of art, not just my music.

I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?'

I had lost my way for some time, so I need to do things that I am happy with. It's not about being the number one heroine or money. It's about doing roles that I enjoy. My biggest ambition is happiness.

I know my destiny is moksh or liberation. I will not die for money or success. I am satisfied living the life I am leading, and I will die with dignity.

I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work.

Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.

Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are fidgeting until we die.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

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.'