Learned Hand Quotes

I had to get into a place for myself of thinking what I would create for myself if I didn't have to worry about making money.

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.

I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's when I realized that I could actually go away.

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

The most important thing in my life is to live my life and enjoy it - to do what I think is right and what I think is good.

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at something that matters. Purpose: the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves. These are the building blocks of an entirely new operating system for our businesses.

I've lived my whole life in the life - I've lived my whole life doing the thing, I've been doing my own thing. And I think my life speaks volumes about what one must do.

I do what I like to do.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.

The will of man is his happiness.

I'm doing what I want to do.

Wherever you are, design your life. Live the values of your generation.

What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

Getting the most out of life is giving life your most.

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

I just want to keep doing what I feel.