Hannah Arendt Quotes

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

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

I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.

The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.

The things that bring you the greatest joy are in alignment with your purpose.

I think that most people will spend their whole life not figuring out what they're meant to do, or figuring out what they're meant to do on their way to do something else. So I just feel lucky that I know what I love to do. Everything else figures itself out.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

I love what I do, and I'm not doing anything either for money or for the sake of some unfulfilled ambition.

The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself, 'What makes me come alive?' Because what the world - a wife, a child - needs is men who have come alive.

You only have one life and if you're not doing what you love, what's the point?

Do what you love, and do it well - that's much more meaningful than any metric.

I believe that the only way to truly be fulfilled, the only way to truly be the person that God created us to be, is to live in our passion, is to do what we're passionate about. It changes everything about us.

There's nothing more nourishing to the spirit than doing what you feel called to do.

I actually think most people do what they love because it's really important to them.

If you don't wake up and have your own thing, whether it's writing or reading or traveling or acting or dancing or singing or being a mother or a father, something that drives you, then it's all worth nothing. One of the key elements in happiness is purpose.

The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

You nourish your soul by fulfilling your destiny.

If you’re doing something you love with people you love in a place you love, you are going to create something of value to the world.

Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.

To be 'on purpose' means you're doing what you love to do, doing what you're good at, and accomplishing what's important to you.

If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.

And now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this three-Personal life is to be played out in each one of us: or (putting it the other way round) each one of us has got to enter that pattern, take his place in that dance. There is no other way to the happiness for which we were made.

The secret is to find what you love to do.I mean, I tell the students look for the job that you would take if you didn't need a job. I mean, it's that simple. And I was lucky enough to find it very early in life. And then the second thing is to have people around you that make feel good every day, and make you a better person than you otherwise would be.