Twyla Tharp Quotes

When I started making music, I was like, 'This is something I can believe I was meant to do.'

Not everyone has a Life's Work. Some people simply have a Life.

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

Through acting and film, I felt that my life had a sense to it. I felt I had a mission.

Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.

I've spent most of my life writing and developing everything that I've wanted to be in - which is why I started writing in the first place.

After a few years, I understood that this is what I was meant to do.

Every time I'd do a play, my grades would get better because I was doing something that fed my soul. It took me a couple of years to recognize that the hobby was actually the calling.

One of the things my dad told me when I was growing up was, 'Find your calling. Find what you're meant to do.' When I found animation, I knew this was it.

You remember our talk about purpose and meaning?" he asked me, the smile disappearing. "Well, I think this might be mine. I think this is what I was meant to do, Georgina.

When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist or becoming famous or whatever it is that people do, but rather a way of making being in the world not just bearable, but fascinating, then it starts to get interesting again.

With acting, I started as a kid and it was my safe space and the place where I felt the most free to be all of myself. What gets explored in our show is where that instinct starts and where it meets with career, and how that can change your path a bit.

I'm hungry for purpose. I'm looking for still that reason that I bought a guitar and started a band, to fulfill a purpose, to manifest destiny as to who I am and why I am the way I am, and what I do. I think it's still about the music, the song and the story.

Your work is not your job. Your job is what they pay you to do; your work is what you were born to do.

Love the calling you have, not the one you wish you had.

They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Creating means living.