The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting.
A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
Dreams are not those that come to us while we are sleeping, but dreams are those that you don’t sleep before fulfilling them.
There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family – and I don’t think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
This is your life, are you who you want to be?
Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of life’s greatest pleasures.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
We are divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.
Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.
All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
Regardless of the events or circumstances that are happening, remain steady and established in the Self. Then you can be truly happy and blissful.
We all want happiness, and yoga is the way for that much needed happiness factor in life.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
Philanthropy is fun and fulfilling.