Bob Greene Quotes

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

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.

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.

I'm in this wonderful place of life, where everything I'm doing is something I do because I enjoy it.

My family advocates doing what fulfills your soul. They've always said, 'You're a big girl; figure it out on your own.'

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

I don't have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It's not about that for me.

There's so many other things I want to do. I don't want to do them to be different or just for a challenge, but because my heart and soul tell me to.

You learn very quickly where you feel fulfilled and where you don't.

Everyone wants to be happy at the end of the day. If we can pursue what we really want to do, we don't get bored of life.

I wanted to do something that gave my life meaning and purpose.

We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue our creative work. We want respect from our peers and recognition for our accomplishments. Not out of vanity or selfishness, but of an earnest desire to fulfill our personal potential.

You don't do everything in life in order to make money.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

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.

The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.

In the long run it makes little difference how cleverly others are deceived; if we are not doing what we are best equipped to do, or doing well what we have undertaken as our personal contribution to the world's work, at least by way of an earnestly followed avocation, there will be a core of unhappiness in our lives which will be more and more difficult to ignore as the years pass.

You may have success in life, but then just think of it - what kind of life was it? What good was it - you've never done the thing you wanted to do in all your life. I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.

Life is about fulfillment. If your life isn't fulfilled, your stomach can never supply what's missing.

The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern.

Strive for a life well lived. Each one with their own aims, preferences, and meaning. Always, of course, without harming other persons or preventing others from being able to form a good life for themselves.

No matter what you achieve in life, you're always wondering, 'Is there something I should be doing? Is there something I'm missing?

An unfulfilled life makes a hard man.

Who I am is what fulfills me and fulfills the vision I have of the world.

To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.