Dorothy Day Quotes

The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets the world's great need. We need all of you to find your vocation. To develop your joys, your passions, and to match them to the world's great needs.

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

I feel like the luckiest person in the world to have found what I am supposed to do and to get to do it.

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.

Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.

Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.

Life: my favorite occupation.

The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.

I'm very lucky that I love what I do. I've never thought of it as work. I've never done it for the money.

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

To discover your mission and put it into action - instead of worrying on the sidelines - is to find peace of mind and a heart full of love.

I sort of cringe when I hear myself say the word 'work.' Getting to do something you love to do never really feels like work.

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

The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.

The meaning of life... I think the meaning of life is, I think it's love.

I think I've found a purpose in acting; it's something I truly love and truly enjoy. It makes me happy. It makes me understand more about life, in front of the camera, than what I'm living beyond the camera.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

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.

You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what it is that you really are about. And then when you find it, if you're lucky enough to be in a position to do what it is that you love, it becomes easy. I'm blessed that I ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

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

It's an amazing blessing to do something you love.

Destiny has put me in the profession that has kept me happy, and where I was supposed to be.

I want to live a fulfilling life.

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