The more I thought about myself, the weaker I got. The more I recognized that I was serving a purpose larger than myself, the stronger I got.
I do believe in standing for something more than just a product.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.
If work is just going in every day and getting a check, it's an ugly life. When you can make work a meaningful purpose, you've hit the jackpot for people.
People have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves. Finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered.
I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
For me, life isn't about being recognized or having everyone know who I am. That's not why I'm here. To me, my foundation is the most important thing I do or have ever done. That's what my life is about.
The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work (a) that you need most to do and (b) that the world most needs to have done....the place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet
You come to a point where you realize your work doesn't save you.
It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure.
Don't let form become more important than the substance of your heart and mind. Don't let commerce determine what you do exclusively.
I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.
For me to get up and feel the urge to go to the set and all that, I have to feel there is something tremendously vibrating to achieve there. I need to lose sometimes a consciousness of the person and the reality in order to be happy to come back into the reality and happier to live it for this cause, to be an artist in this life.
Quality … has to do with intention.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Real happiness comes from discovering a sense of importance in one's actions and in one's life.
I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who demands something worth believing in.
Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!
If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.
There is nothing without reason.
