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.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

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

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

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

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

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

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

I only want my work to make people happy.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

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

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

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

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.

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

We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

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.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

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

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.‘

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

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.

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‘.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

The Cold War isn’t thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn’t sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

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.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

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.

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.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

I’ve enjoyed all the parts of my career.

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

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.

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.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

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.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

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.

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.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

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

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

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.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

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.

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.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

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.

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

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