Daniel Inouye Quotes

Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

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 believe you only have one chance on this earth, and I'm just trying to live my life and do what makes me happy.

The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.

I started thinking about life insurance and how nice it would be if you could get insurance that your life would be happy, and that everyone you knew could be happy, and they could all do what they really wanted to do, and they could all find the people they wanted to find.

This is my life, and I want to live it and enjoy it if I can.

The happiest people are the ones who follow their own dreams most closely.

I do not know if I really am a big star. And in fact that is not the most important thing for me. What counts in life is to bring about more of your own dreams. In such a way that your life becomes like a fairy tale. This is what has happened to me, it is just like that.

If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.

There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.

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.

The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.

The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.

I have this amazing life.

I'm very relaxed. I have a family, I have a partner of 20 years, I have a wonderful life; nothing could be better.

I try to live by the rule do what makes you happy.

I want to live a full life - period.

I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.

I have no regrets. I feel very grateful for the life that I had - you know, family I live with; and I've been doing work that I love, ever since I came to Nashville.

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.

And I don't believe that I have to stay on one side of the fence or the other. I don't believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are only the things that make me happy.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

I want lots of kids and I want a garden and I hope to stay married to my husband. I hope to be working in some way that fulfils me.

Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy.