Kathryn Minshew Quotes

If you listen to the real in you, that part that's pulsing and has questions and is trying to figure something out, it will shape your life in a way where, when you get to be sixty, you'll succeed. You'll be happy about your life.

Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life.

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose.

My life is my message.

I want to do work of meaning that speaks to a greater depth of who I am.

Getting in touch with your life purpose is important.

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.

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled. Sooner or later, we are all asked to compromise ourselves and the things we care about. We define ourselves by our actions. With each decision, we tell ourselves and the world who we are. Think about what you want out of this life, and recognize that there are many kinds of success.

For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Your intuition will tell you where you need to go; it will connect you with people you should meet; it will guide you toward work that is meaningful for you - work that brings you joy, work that feels right for you.

An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.

You pursue what you love, and if you find beauty or truth, you go with that.

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

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.

Having a purpose and knowing exactly what your values are will add additional years to your life.

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

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

You do have to follow your heart, otherwise you're living a false life.

Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now.