Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

It doesn't matter what it is you're doing, my motto is: the joy is in the doing.

I'm a guy that follows my heart and my passion. I do what I love.

I'm grateful for every chance I get to do something I love and have a passion for.

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.

Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.

Do what you're passionate about.

I'm really, really enjoying myself, I seem to have a lot of purpose in my life. I'm enjoying what I'm doing, you know, and people are liking it. So, it's great, you know.

You have to find the intersection of doing something you're passionate about and that, at the same time, is in the service of other people. I would argue if you don't find that intersection, you're not going to be very happy.

I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something.

It's an amazing blessing to do something you love.

I think I am someone who is happy playing football. It is just that. Whenever I go onto the pitch, I always try and be happy. That is the big motivation that I have always had. Nothing else.

At my ashram, people work long hours joyfully because they are inspired. When people are involved and joyfully doing something, they usually turn out ten times more and do more than what they would normally do as a duty.

I think what I show is joy when I do stuff, so I think always having a love for what you do every single day is something that I hold extremely close to my heart because I know what it's like to not feel that.

I really feel gratitude every day in my life that I'm able to do what I love, and I think, because I have that passion and spirit, I've had success.

No matter what you do, you should enjoy it. You should really find passion in it.

If you're making something you're passionate about, it's not going to feel like work.

I wouldn't change what I do for the world - every single day, I'm lucky to be doing what I'm doing.

I learned that you have to fall in love with what you are doing and then you will enjoy it.

When you get to do things you love with every fiber of your being, it's a different experience.