John Mason Brown Quotes

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

I can say with full sincerity that I am happy. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love and I'm not selling out.

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.

Every person can reach a full life.

I think that everybody needs to find meaning in life. I was hoping to do something that serves the needs of society.

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.

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

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves.