Taryn Manning Quotes

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

I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my soul.

Maybe it sounds like I'm splitting hairs here but I don't wanna perform for a living, I wanna live for a living.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

Many people find their calling very early in their lives. These are the kind of people we read about in school books and newspapers. Then there are some who don't have a clue of what they want to do in their lives; I am belong to the latter category.

Working is living to me.

I know what my dharma is: I'm supposed to be an actor.

I wasn't predestined to be a filmmaker; this wasn't an obvious choice to me.

I wouldn't be alive without my work.

My career is my life and my passion. It's not a job, it's my life.

I feel like I was born to do this... I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.

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.

To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

I've been fortunate that I can be selective enough to do acting when it's really furthering what I want to do with my life.

When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.

I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had.

As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.

Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.