Richelle Mead Quotes

For years and years I have done the work I was born for.

They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.

It's a miracle when we finally discover whom we're best equipped to serve.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

After a few years, I understood that this is what I was meant to do.

The two most important days in your life are the day your are born and the day you find out why.

The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

Not everyone has a Life's Work. Some people simply have a Life.

Knowing your purpose gives meaning to your life.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

"What is my job on the planet?" is one question we might do well to ask ourselves over and over again. Otherwise, we may wind up doing somebody else's job and not even know it. And what's more, that somebody else might be a figment of our own imagination, and maybe a prisoner of it as well.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

You dream what you're supposed to do.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Sometimes you just know what you're placed on this earth to do.

I've always considered myself lucky that I do not have many passions. There's only one pursuit that I have ever truly loved, and that pursuit is writing. This means, conveniently enough, that I never had to search for my destiny; I only had to obey it.

The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.

When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.

From a very early age, I realized why I was put on this planet: to fight.

All of us have a mission here on Earth.

I've always had a sense that I am doing something very important, something vital.

When I started making music, I was like, 'This is something I can believe I was meant to do.'

One of the things my dad told me when I was growing up was, 'Find your calling. Find what you're meant to do.' When I found animation, I knew this was it.

I've always asked myself since I was young, what is my duty on this planet? What am I there for? Just to hang around? Everybody must have some purpose.