Zygmunt Bauman Quotes

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

My family advocates doing what fulfills your soul. They've always said, 'You're a big girl; figure it out on your own.'

You can't tell what's going to fulfill you in different stages in your life.

A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.

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.

What you want to do is to get to the point where you only do what matters to you. The real goal in life is to become more of who you are, so that you can make the choices that really satisfy who you are and what you want to do.

To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal - to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself.

I think the balance is between what you can get, what you want and what wants you.

Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings you the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run.

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

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

If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something to blame; and it is not the social system, or your intellect, but the way in which you have directed your intellect.

There is most certainly a purpose you are yearning to fulfill. Find it, know it, follow it, and you can change the world.

I don't have a career, I have a life. Don't think of a career, think about your passion and look for inspiration.

I hope I have found myself, my work, my happiness - under the light of the western skies.

The cure for unhappiness...It's this: What a person needs is always more than they say.

The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am.

A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.

They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.

That wonderful and terribly frightening journey of self-discovery. That process of growth, of being an independent person, of learning who you are and what you want from life, is the real secret of life, happiness and beauty.

Our only purpose in life is growth.

There is, fortunately, a minority composed of those who recognize early in their lives that the most beautiful and satisfying experiences open to humankind are not derived from the outside, but are bound up with the development of the individual's own feeling, thinking and acting. The genuine artists, investigators and thinkers have always been persons of this kind. However inconspicuously the life of these individuals runs its course, none the less the fruits of their endeavors are the most valuable contributions which one generation can make to its successors.

There is only one person who can ever know exactly what you want and truly make you happy - that person is you!

You will not find the treasure of your Personal Legend unless you want to live that Legend.

Living our lives may not be an exciting prospect to some of us either. Maybe we've been so wrapped up in other people that we've forgotten how to live and enjoy our lives.