I’m happy about working; I’m happy about gracing the stage and coming out and making people laugh. I never treat it like a job or feel that way. It’s the best thing ever to me, and I feel like a kid in a candy store.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

My life has been very full.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

My measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission.

I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

I’ve enjoyed all the parts of my career.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I’m very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I’m feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It’s gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

I only want my work to make people happy.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

To be in any way a positive contribution, that’s all anybody wants to be. It’s all I’ve ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you’ve been of use, in whatever way that comes out.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‚I used everything you gave me‘.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‚tap-dancing to work.‘

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

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.