Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes

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.

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.

You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.

I feel that my whole life is a contribution.

A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.

Finding your purpose may be a lifelong pursuit or you may have discovered it when you were 5 years old. There's no absolute timeline for anyone. That's a good reason never to give up, to keep on discovering things every day.

Being happy requires that you define your life in your own terms and then throw your whole heart into living your life to the fullest. In a way, happiness requires that you be perfectly selfish in order to develop yourself to a point where you can be unselfish for the rest of your life.

Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.

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

Let each moment be guided by positive purpose. And let your whole life express the beauty of who you truly are.

The purpose of life is to create your Self anew, in the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever you held about Who You Are. It is to announce and become, express and fulfill, experience and know your true Self.

Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me?

The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.

I came to the conclusion that unless I found myself and became the change I wanted to see in the world - as Gandhi said - I couldn't contribute much, nor would there be anything fulfilling or meaningful in my life. So I went on a spiritual search.

I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it.

My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves.

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.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

Starting with the values that feel authentic to who you are can serve as a compass to find more meaningful, fulfilling work.

I don't do anything just for the sake of it. I don't live my life for the sake of it.

Getting in touch with your life purpose is important.

At some point in your life, you need to sit down and say, 'What do I want to do? How do I want to be remembered? What's my legacy? And what's important to me?'

We want you to find that thing that will make your life better.

My life is real.