A. R. Ammons Quotes

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

I want to do work of meaning that speaks to a greater depth of who I am.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself, 'What makes me come alive?' Because what the world - a wife, a child - needs is men who have come alive.

Football was not what I was put on this planet to do.

If I lose touch with that... the reason why I act... then I'll leave it all. I don't do it for fame or money.

You have to understand who you are and figure out a way to communicate it. It might be in a different industry, but it's about what pumps the blood through your veins, what makes you excited, what pushes your buttons. And then discovering the best way to communicate that, no matter how big or small; it's what you stand for, what you believe in, and what reflects who you are.

Ask yourself what makes you come alive.

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.

For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the 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.

Who are you and what are you?... I need to know.

I think doing something of your life is something that you've got deep inside, whether it's to, whether you want to be an astronaut or a, whether you want to do science, or whether you want to be a movie star, or whatever.

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

Discovering your purpose doesn't have to be complicated. Look at what you do and why you do it. Is it to support your family? That's your purpose. Is it to make a difference in your customer's life? That's your purpose.

Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here.

While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die.

Despite my mother saying I have been destined to be an actress my whole life, I remember being the kid who grew up not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.

For a while now I've had this feeling that there's something that I'm supposed to be doing or something that I'm supposed to contribute. I don't know what that is yet, but it's been plaguing me - like I've missed my calling somehow.

Every human being is searching for a deep sense of meaning, and yet we're all chasing success. We've confused one for the other.

I had lost a clear sense of the vision and values instilled in me as a child and was no longer driven by any mission or passion. I made the difficult decision to pull back from the noise of my life and reinvent the way I was living and leading.

Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey.

I want to struggle and make films. It's not a financial thing, it's more of a who-I-am thing.