Daniel H. Pink Quotes

I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.

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

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

I don't have a career, I have a life. I don't have an exterior judgment on what would be good or bad for me.

The choice is yours: Do you want to exist, or do you want to live?

Happiness is not on my list of priorities. I just deal with day-to-day things. If I'm happy, I'm happy – and if I'm not, I don't know the difference... Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be – that's much more important than just being happy.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. The purpose of life is to matter-to count, to stand for something, to have it make so difference that we lived at all.

It's good to be successful and have financial status but if you're only gonna live for the money, you're only gonna reach a certain status and I'm in there for greatness and peace of mind.

Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings you the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run.

Are You Living or Just Existing?" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

Authentic success is living by your own lights.

The more we devote ourselves to the pursuit of holiness and happiness, the less likely we will be on a path to regrets.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me?

It is very important that you only do what you love to do. you may be poor, you may go hungry, you may lose your car, you may have to move into a shabby place to live, but you will totally live. And at the end of your days you will bless your life because you have done what you came here to do. Otherwise, you will live your life as a prostitute, you will do things only for a reason, to please other people, and you will never have lived. and you will not have a pleasant death.

Happiness is living by inner purpose.

By success, of course, I do not mean that you may become rich, famous, or powerful for that does not, of necessity, represent achievement. Indeed, not infrequently, such individuals represent pathetic failure as persons.

P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That's the human dashboard.

The money, the fame, if that comes, that's fantastic. But at the end of the day, my aim is to go to sleep at night content and have a purpose, and to know that I'm not swapping my life for money and some mind-numbing boring job, making easy money and protecting my brain.

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.

I'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me.

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.

I don't make decisions for money or popularity. I do things because they're right for me, and they're interesting and challenging.

Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.