Jessica Mitford Quotes

I think every woman has this point in her life where she's like, 'I have a great job, great outfits and great friends, but something's missing.'

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.

I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.

Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.

You may have success in life, but then just think of it - what kind of life was it? What good was it - you've never done the thing you wanted to do in all your life. I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.

You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.

I hope that in 5 years from now I'll be working and doing what makes me happy. Whatever that may be.

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

To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.

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

It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.

I'm in this wonderful place of life, where everything I'm doing is something I do because I enjoy it.

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

It's not like during your normal day, anyone says, 'How do having meaning in your life? How do you make meaning in your life?'

We have children to pursue other elements of well-being. We want meaning in life. We want relationships.

Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel complete and full. That is success. And it isn't dependent on anyone else.

I would like my kids to follow their bliss.

I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.

It's weird. I don't really have goals. I just try to make sure I'm enjoying what I'm doing. Once I start to get sick of it, the next thing becomes obvious.

My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

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.

Pursuing your passion is fulfilling and leads to financial freedom.

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

The question is not... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for myself, if I am the best I can be in the things I do. Am I living up to the reasons I became a singer in the first place?

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