Larry Smith Quotes

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

At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.

I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.

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.

I had fame and wealth and things that are supposed to make you happy, but I wasn't happy, because there's no importance on having a fulfilling life. So in my mid-40s, that was my pursuit - making films that interested me, films that I would like to go see.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

Everything I've done has been personally fun, important, and meaningful to me.

I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.

I would like my kids to follow their bliss.

Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit.

A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.

Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore.

When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.

If you do the things you enjoy and are good at, I really have a feeling that that will lead to having a fulfilling life, and people with fulfilling lives are able to be 'good people.'

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.

I always tell kids to find what they're passionate about.

Folks should find what really inspires them; they should always pursue what they want to do.

I've found my purpose in life, definitely.

My greatest wish for my children is that they fulfill their purpose. I know that all children - and, in particular, mine - are here for a reason.

Real Dreams don't require you to abandon your family, quit your job, and move to Tahiti with your paintbrush. They just require that you search your soul for that deep dream you put aside-and go for it. And watch your life light up.

I don't have a career, I have a life. Don't think of a career, think about your passion and look for inspiration.

You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest.

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.