Do what you love (quotes)

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Do what you love

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Follow your bliss 

  • Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls. Joseph Campbell
  • Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of bliss. Osho
  • Do what you do for the sheer joy of it. Do what you choose, not what someone else chooses for you. Neale Donald Walsch
  • If there is any point at all to life, surely it is to live out our dreams, to serve, to follow our bliss, to release the music within us, play it with joy and to share it with others? Surely we have a responsibility to finally listen to – and honor – the siren calls of our souls, which have been silenced by our egos throughout our lives? How else can we connect with our essence, the source of our calling? Lance Secretan
  • It is important to focus on what you find easy. This is where most motivational writers go wrong. They assume you should try things that are difficult for you. Richard Koch
  • It’s hard for many to imagine, but having fun, feeding your passions, and engaging your talents are simple steps that will take you to the bigger answers you seek. Jonathan H. Ellerby
  • Pursue those few things where you are amazingly better than others and that you enjoy the most. Richard Koch
  • Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can. Martha Graham
  • The secret is keeping busy and loving what you do. Lionel Hampton
  • The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing. Winifred Holtby
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Do what you love

  • Love what you do. Wayne Dyer
  • Go ahead and do what you love to do. Do nothing else! You have so little time. How can you think of wasting a single moment doing something for a living you don’t like to do? That is not a living, that is dying! Neale Donald Walsch
  • The first step is to find out what you love – and don’t be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible. Barbara Sher
  • Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. Rumi
  • Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. Rumi
  • Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go. Natalie Goldberg
  • You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it. Lucinda Basset
  • Follow what you love! Don’t deign to ask what “they” are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside. Follow not your interests, which change, but what you are and what you love, which will and should not change. Georgie Anne Geyer
  • It’s actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you to remain unapologetically consumed by it. Be faithful to your gift and very confident in its value. Jonathan Ive
  • The most important thing is that you love what you are doing, and the second that you are not afraid of where your next idea will lead. Charles Eames
  • Alright, the secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it. Robin Sharma
  • Live what you love. Bob Blanchard
  • It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done. Vincent van Gogh
  • What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do. Sanaya Roman
  • I have a motto: it’s never too late to give up. It’s never too late to give up what you are doing and start doing what you realise you love. Hans Rosling
  • …we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make. R.R. Tolkien, Fellowship of the Ring.The first step is to find out what you love – and don’t be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.  Barbara Sher
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Do what stirs your heart

  • Are you doing what you love? Are you working at something that sets you aflame? That feeds the fires of your heart? If not, why not? Make a change. Do something else. Or else just love what you do. Put your heart into it. Now. Tom Morris
  • If you’re dedicated, if it’s something that lives and breathes in your heart, then you’ve simply got to go ahead and do it. Rodney Crowell
  • Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. Norman Vincent Peale
  • Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It’s our goal in life to find it and keep it lit. Mary Lou Retton
  • We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts. John Ruskin
  • What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul’s emphasis is always right. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. Oriah Mountain Dreamer
  • Isn’t it time to turn your heart into a temple of fire? Rumi
  • Following all the rules leaves a completed checklist. Following your heart achieves a completed you. Ray Davis
  • There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few that will catch your heart – pursue those. Michael Molan
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Follow your passion

  • Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it’s about passion: it is about loving what you do…tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self. Sir Ken Robinson    
  • Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it. Wieder Marcia
  • Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it. Julia Child
  • Have the courage to follow your passion – and if you don’t know what it is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it. Oprah Winfrey
  • Ignoring your passion is like dying a slow death…Passion whispers to you through your feelings, beckoning you toward your highest good. Pay attention to what makes you feel energized, connected, stimulated – what gives you your juice. Do what you love, give it back in the form of service, and you will do more than succeed. You will triumph. Oprah Winfrey
  • It’s hard for many to imagine, but having fun, feeding your passions, and engaging your talents are simple steps that will take you to the bigger answers you seek. Jonathan H. Ellerby  
  • Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life. Auguste Rodin
  • Our world is incomplete until each one of us discovers what moves us – our passion. No other person can hear our calling. We must listen and act on it for ourselves. Richard J. Leider
  • Your true passion should feel like breathing; it’s that natural. Oprah Winfrey
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The rewards of doing what you love

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Knowing what you love brings great clarity to life 

  • Passion is the most powerful statement of who you are as a unique individual. Passion brings inspiration, excitement, clarity and purpose into your life. Peter Wallman
  • Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what he loves. Blaise Pascal 
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Doing what you love is the key to happiness 

  • Alright, the secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it. Robin Sharma
  • Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness. Saint Augustine
  • The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure. Francoise de Motteville
  • Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you’re gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love. Barbara Sher
  • If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi Desert. Find a happy person, and you will find a project. W. Béran Wolfe
  • Do what you love. If you don’t know what brings you joy, ask, “What is my joy?” As you commit to your joy, you will attract an avalanche of joyful things because you are radiating joy. Rhonda Byrne
  • Real life is doing something which you love to do with your whole being so that there is no inner contradiction, no war between what you are doing and what you think you should do. Life is then a completely integrated process in which there is tremendous joy. Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. Albert Einstein
  • To love what you do and feel that it matters—how could anything else be more fun? Katharine Graham
  • The happiest people in the world are people who love what they are doing, regardless of whether wealth, fame, power and elevated social status ever come their way. The most fulfilled people are individuals who delight in their work, whatever it might be, and strive to do it well. Tom Morris
  • It is essential to our wellbeing, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing. Marcia Wieder
  • 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. Napoleon Hill
  • To be happy for a year, win the lottery. To be happy for life, love what you do. Mary Higgins Clark
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Doing what you love is the cornerstone of abundance 

  • Do what you love, and the money will follow. Marsha Sinetar
  • Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life. Wayne Dyer
  • Follow your bliss, and doors will open for you that you never knew existed. Joseph Campbell
  • There is no better way to earn money than to do the things that you love to do. Money can flow into your experience through endless avenues. It is not the choice of the craft that limits the money that flows, but only your attitude toward money. Esther and Jerry Hicks
  • When you follow your bliss, you live in a constant space of joy. You open yourself to the abundance of the Universe. You’re excited to share your life with those you love, and your excitement, your passion, your bliss become contagious. Lisa Nichols
  • What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us. Julia Cameron
  • Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor. Paul Hawken
  • If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings. Sometimes the great famine of blessings in and around us derives from the fact that we are not living the life we love; rather, we are living the life that is expected of us. We have fallen out of rhythm with the secret signature and light of our own nature. John O’Donohue
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Doing what you love fills you with tremendous energy 

  • Activities we love fill us with energy even when we are physically exhausted. Activities we don’t like drain us in minutes, even if we approach them at our physical peak of fitness. This is one of the keys to the Element, and one of the primary reasons why finding the Element is vital for every person. When people place themselves in situations that lead to their being in the zone, they tap into a primal source of energy. They are literally more alive because of it. Sir Ken Robinson
  • Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it’s about passion: it is about loving what you do…tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self. Sir Ken Robinson
  • A human being is the kind of machine that wears out from lack of use. There are limits, of course, and we do need healthful rest and relaxation, but for the most part we gain energy by using energy… It might well be that all of us possess enormous stores of potential energy, more than we could ever hope to use. George Leonard
  • Without passion you don’t have energy, without energy you have nothing. Donald Trump
  • One way we can know that we are aligned with the life force that is God is that we feel more and more alive. Notice what gives you aliveness and what diminishes you, deadens and numbs you so that you only skim the surface of life. Begin to say yes to what quickens and energizes, to that which brings joy and gratitude. Mary Manin Morrissey
  • Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly. Stephen Covey
  • Much of the world’s depression and discontent… can ultimately be traced to our unused energy, our untapped potential. George Leonard
  • When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible. Nancy Coey
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Doing what you love is good for the soul 

  • What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul’s emphasis is always right. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The key is to trust your heart to move where your talents can flourish. This old world will really spin when work becomes a joyous expression of the soul. Al Sacharov
  • Don’t die with your music (stories/talents) still inside you. Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your soul. Wayne Dyer
  • It is the soul’s duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. Rebecca West
  • When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight. Michael Bridge
  • When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life. Jean Shinoda Bolen
  • When you do things from your soul you feel a river moving in you, a joy. When action come from another section, the feeling disappears. Rumi
  • Only Passions, great Passions, can elevate the soul to great things. Denis Diderot
  • Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual. David Steindl-Rast
  • Nothing but what you volunteer has the essence of life, the springs of pleasure in it. These are the things you do because you want to do them, the things your spirit has chosen for its satisfaction. The more you are stimulated to such action the more clearly does it appear to you that you are a sovereign spirit, put into the world, not to wear a harness, but to work eagerly without it. Woodrow Wilson
  • When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. Rumi
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Doing what you love allows you to harness the power of passion 

  • Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. Hegel
  • Passion is the deep, inner drive to reach for what we love.
  • Passion is the most powerful statement of who you are as a unique individual. Passion brings inspiration, excitement, clarity and purpose into your life. Peter Wallman
  • Passion always trumps excuses! Passion is the inner excitement of being on the right path, doing what feels good to you and what you know you are meant to do. It’s my contention that the mere presence of passion within you—and the enthusiasm that comes with it—is all you need to fulfil your dreams. Wayne Dyer
  • Passions ignite every chamber of our being. We are beholden to our sense for that electrifying experience. John D Rockefeller
  • Passion is the love of turning being into action. It fuels the engine of creation. It changes concepts to experience. Never deny passion, for that is to deny Who You Are, and Who You Truly Want to Be. Neale Donald Walsch
  • Never forget the importance of living with unbridled exhilaration. Robin Sharma
  • Never underestimate the power of passion. Eve Sawyer
  • When you follow your passion, you move differently through life. Henri Junttila
  • Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions. Benjamin Disraeli
  • Your heart holds all the answers to all the questions you might ask yourself and then reveals them to you through your passions. Richard Chang
  • It’s hard for many to imagine, but having fun, feeding your passions, and engaging your talents are simple steps that will take you to the bigger answers you seek. Jonathan H. Ellerby
  • The most untutored person with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without. La Rochefoucauld
  • Passion is the genesis of genius. Tony Robbins
  • All you need is passion. If you have a passion for something, you’ll create the talent. Yanni
  • Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. Oprah Winfrey
  • The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses. Edith Södergran
  • There’s being obligated to run hard versus wanting to run hard. There’s duty, and there’s passion. And you can’t fake passion. Danielle LaPorte
  • Passion will always move you in the direction of your authentic self. Danielle LaPorte
  • Aim for passion, not balance. Balance is a myth. Passion will put your life into the right proportions that work as a whole. Danielle LaPorte
  • If you are what you should be, then you will set the world on fire. Catherine of Siena
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Doing what you love helps you tap into the power of enthusiasm 

  • Enthusiasm – the sustaining power of all great action. Samuel Smiles
  • Enthusiasm, like the breath of God, transforms everything. Gail Sher
  • Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation and a pinch of creativity. Bo Bennett
  • Whenever there is enthusiasm, there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of. Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
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Doing what you love allows you to excel 

  • We only do well the things we like doing. Colette
  • When love and skill work together… expect a masterpiece. John Ruskin
  • The very fact that you enjoy something means that you probably have within yourself the capability to be excellent in that area. Brian Tracy
  • If you’re passionate about what it is you do, then you’re going to be looking for everything you can to get better at it. Jack Canfield
  • I’m a firm believer in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don’t enjoy. Jack Nicklaus
  • People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well. Joe Gibbs
  • Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. Aristotle
  • Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully. Zig Ziglar
  • When we engage in what we are naturally suited to do, our work takes on the quality of play and it is play that stimulates creativity. Linda Naiman
  • Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. Aristotle
  • You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you. Maya Angelou
  • It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well. Orison Swett Marden
  • People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well. Joe Gibbs
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Doing what you love opens doors and aids the way 

  • If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be. Joseph Campbell
  • The way is not in the sky, the way is in the heart. For the traveler who knows his direction, there is always a favorable wind. Stuart Avery Gold
  • Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. Ella Fitzgerald
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Doing what you love gives you the experience of being alive which is what life is all about 

  • I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. Joseph Campbell
  • Don’t worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.  Howard Thurman
  • The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile. Denis Waitley
  • Being fully aliveVitality
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Doing what you love brings great success 

  • People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. Dale Carnegie
  • Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. David Frost
  • Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. Albert Schweitzer
  • Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you derive from what you do. Michael Korda
  • Our lives ought to be lived in pursuit of those noble goals that are right for our talents and dearest to our hearts. Then, the risks we take will most likely yield the results we value. That is the deepest practice of the art of achievement. Tom Morris
  • Whatever you are by nature, keep to it, never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed. Sidney Smith
  • You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. Ayn Rand
  • People are going to be most creative and productive when they’re doing something they’re really interested in. So having fun isn’t an outrageous idea at all. It’s a very sensible one. John Sculley
  • You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it. Oprah Winfrey
  • You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing. Dale Carnegie
  • The most successful people are incredibly clear about what invigorates them and what doesn’t. Marcus Buckingham
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In fact, if you love what you do, you are already a success 

  • No man is a failure who is enjoying life. William Feather
  • 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. Bob Dylan
  • I don’t care what you do for a living. If you love it, you’re a success. George Burns
  • There is only one success – to spend your life in your own way. Christopher Morley
  • Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals. Bo Bennett
  • Success to me is not about money or status or fame, it’s about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self- sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world. Anita Roddick
  • Success means living the life of the heart. Francis Ford Coppola
  • I’d rather fail at doing something I love than succeed at doing something I hate. George Burns
  • If you’re gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy. Sylvester Stallone
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Choose work that you love

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Blur the line between work and play 

  • The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. Arnold Toynbee
  • Find something you love doing, that feels like play, and turn that into your job. Leo Babauta
  • Work and play are the same. When you’re following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves. Shakti Gawain
  • The best career advice to give to the young is, “Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.” Katharine Whitehorn
  • Work has to include our deepest values and passions and feelings and commitments, or it’s not work, it’s just a job. Matthew Fox
  • In work, do what you enjoy. Lao Tzu
  • The happiest people in the world ask, ‘What if I could find some way to get paid for doing what I love?’ Michael Gelb
  • Find your passion and follow it. Never give up. There is always a way to make a living doing what you love. It may not come in the form you think, so be open-minded. Henri Junttila
  • Work is love made visible. Kahlil Gibran
  • When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home. Betty Bender
  • Find a job you like, and you add five days to every week. Jackson Brown
  • You’ve got to find what you love. And that’s as true for work as it is for your lovers. 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 and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you will know when you find it. Steve Jobs
  • Somewhere someone is looking for exactly what you have to offer. Louise Hay
  • One of the outstanding tragedies of this age of struggle and money- madness is the fact that so few people are engaged in the effort which they like best. Everyone should find his or her particular niche in the world’s work, where both material prosperity and happiness in abundance may be found. Napoleon Hill
  • When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home. Betty Bender
  • The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation. Mark Twain
  • 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. Steve Jobs
  • Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. Rumi
  • What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work, I shouldn’t have done it. Mark Twain
  • Make your work your play and your play your work. Phil Jackson
  • A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both. Lawrence Pearsall Jacks
  • The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy. Malcolm S. Forbes
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Don’t chase money, chase your passion 

  • Go after what really inspires you. Don’t chase money. Chase your passion. If you aren’t enthusiastic about your work, then you’re wasting your life. Switch to something else. Consider a new career altogether. Steve Pavlina
  • I believe you are your work. Don’t trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That’s a rotten bargain. Rita Mae Brown
  • Your profession is not what brings home your pay check. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling. Vincent van Gogh
  • Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And never do it for the money. Don’t go to work to make money, go to work to spread joy. Marianne Williamson
  • Let passion drive your profession. Oprah Winfrey
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Work that you love ceases to be work 

  • There is nothing more marvellous than doing something you love to do and getting paid for it. It ceases to become work, money, and effort; and it becomes fun, your expression of the joy of life. Stuart Wilde
  • It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else. Sir J.M. Barrie
  • Find something you love to do, and you’ll never have to work another day in your life. Harvey Mackay
  • I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun. Thomas A. Edison
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Finding work you love is hugely rewarding… 

  • Finding work you love is essential to living a healthy, balanced life. Joshua Rosenthal
  • To be successful, the first thing to do is to fall in love with your work. Sister Mary Lauretta
  • The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do. Abraham Maslow
  • Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every pay check will be a bonus. Oprah Winfrey
  • The key is to trust your heart to move where your talents can flourish. This old world will really spin when work becomes a joyous expression of the soul. Al Sacharov
  • To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. Pearl S. Buck
  • We don’t realize the extent to which our lives would improve if we were doing work we loved. Joshua Rosenthal
  • Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Theodore Roosevelt
  • When a person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities. Norman Vincent Peale
  • Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined. Johnny Carson
  • No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. Samuel Goldwyn
  • When you work, you fulfil a part of earth’s fondest dream assigned to you when that dream is born. Kahlil Gibran
  • When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible. Nancy Coey
  • Work is more fun than fun. Noel Coward
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… including financially 

  • What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us. Julia Cameron
  • Do what you love and the money will follow. Marsha Sinetar
  • The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing…. The long-term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their “Luck” arises from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed. Srully Blotnick
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Discover what you love

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Ask yourself what makes you come alive 

  • Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Howard Thurman
  • What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? Dr. Robert Schuller
  • You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need. Jerry Gillies
  • When you do not tire within but seek the sweet satisfaction of your life and your work, you are doing what you were meant to be doing. Gary Zukav
  • It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. Lucille Ball
  • Your true passion should feel like breathing, it’s that natural. Oprah Winfrey
  • Anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you. David Whyte
  • There is one aspect of happiness that’s been well studied, and it’s the notion of flow. Ask yourselves, when for you does time stop? When are you truly at home, wanting to be no place else? Martin Seligman
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Ask yourself these questions to discover what you love

  • Do I enjoy what I do on a daily basis?
  • At what time in your recent past have you felt most passionate and alive?
  • What activities cause you to feel useful, vital, better than before?
  • What feels so good and so easy to give that you give it generously?
  • What do you do best—that gives you a rush while you’re doing it?
  • What are you passionate about?
  • What parts of your work do you enjoy the most and do the best?
  • When was the last time that you were so engrossed in an activity that you felt like time had stopped?
  • What do you really love to do in your personal life?
  • What are your greatest strengths?
  • What did you enjoy doing as a child?
  • What comes to you effortlessly?
  • What activities energise you?
  • How can you get paid to do what you love?
  • What would you do if you weren’t afraid?
  • What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
  • If you had only 6 months to live, what would you do?
  • What would you do for free?
  • What do you love so much you’d pay to do it?
  • What would you do if you never had to worry about money, ever again?
  • If you could only do one thing all day long, what one task or activity would it be?
  • If you had all the time and all the money in the world, what would you do?
  • What is your ideal career? How can you start creating your ideal career starting today?
  • If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich?
  • If you had to work for 90 days straight without getting paid, what work would you want to do?
  • What’s something you’ll never get tired of doing?
  • If you could go to five conferences or events this year, which ones would you go to, or what would they be about?
  • What could you talk about late into the night with like-minded people without running out of things to say?
  • What activities make you feel really useful, alive, and strong?
  • In this moment, is this what I want to be doing?
  • Why do we do things we dislike and like the things we never seem to do?
  • What is the one job/cause/activity that could get you out of bed happily for the rest of your life? Are you doing it now?
  • What would you do if you had unlimited time, money and resources?
  • What activities do I perform that give me the least joy? Do they really need doing? Can I delegate or pay someone else to do them?
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Bring love to what you do

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Bring love to each task you do 

  • Never do anything because you have to. The only reason to do something is because you want to and because you know it is the right thing for you to do. Robin Sharma
  • It is not how much we do, but how much love we put into the doing. Mother Theresa
  • We cannot do great things on this earth. We can only do small things with great love. Mother Teresa
  • There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly. Seneca
  • If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart. Buddha
  • A menial task which must be mine, that shall I glorify and make an art of it. Walter Russell
  • You must love anything you must do. Do it not only cheerfully, but also lovingly and the very best way you know how. That love of the work which you must do anyhow will vitalize your body and keep you from fatigue. Walter Russell
  • In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love? Igor Stravinsky
  • The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a dynamic power moving out in the world and doing something original. Tom Morris
  • We no longer vibrate to fear when we’re attuned to love. Frank Whitney
  • Wherever you go… go with all your heart. Confucious
  • When you hold back on life, life holds back on you. Mary Manin Morrissey
  • There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. Publius Terentius
  • Instead of focusing on how much you can accomplish, focus on how much you can absolutely love what you’re doing. Leo Babauta
  • In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all. Mahatma Gandhi  
  • Expand your reality to the point where you pursue what you love doing and excel at it. Involve yourself in high- energy levels of trust, optimism, appreciation, reverence, joy, and love when you engage in every activity in your life. Wayne Dyer
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Immerse yourself in a project that unleashes your passion 

  • As people with the creative spirit, we’re obsessed with possibility. We live for the rush of turning a thought — an abstract idea — into something real, tangible, touchable, readable, effectual, profitable. We feel empowered, generous even, in the making of our art. We have a practical indignation for mediocrity. We love to get things done. Danielle LaPorte
  • When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be. Patanjali
  • Within each of us lies The Project. An idea longing to be nourished, cherished, launched and completed. Writing a novel. Starting an enterprise. Raising a family. Freeing a nation.  Our deepest desire is to do The Project. To express our vision. To carefully and patiently watch it unfold. To present it to those who will benefit by it. And to experience the pride of the job beautifully done.  Robin Sharma
  • The moment you start The Project, everything shifts. Purpose, focus, passion and peace returns to your life. Eyes sparkle. Energy explodes. Inspiration flows. And your days become supported by coincidence, power and peak possibility. Robin Sharma
  • Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. Lady Bird Johnson
  • Your devotion eventually becomes your BEAUTIFUL OBSESSION. You practice it daily. Constantly. Consistently.  You have no time for TV and Call of Duty video games and Twitter or gossip. You need and hunger to do that thing that fills you. That inspires you. That gives you precious glimpses of your greatest self.  Robin Sharma
  • People with great projects afoot habitually look further and more clearly into the future than people who are mired in day- to- day concerns.  Robert Grudin
  • A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment. Seneca
  • There can be no richer man or woman than the individual who has found his or her labor of love. Personal fulfilment through the virtue of work is the highest form of desire. Work is the conduit between the supply and the demand of all human needs, the forerunner of human progress, and the medium by which the imagination is given the wings of action. A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self- expression to those who perform it. Dennis Kimbro 
  • Immerse yourself in what you do
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Stop doing what you don’t love

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To do what you love requires courage and determination 

  • You know, I have a theory that absolutely everyone in life knows what they need to do in order to become happy. It’s just that most aren’t brave enough to take the steps to do it. Karl Moore
  • 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. Wayne Dyer
  • The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. Debbi Fields
  • Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. Ella Fitzgerald
  • ‘What will they think of me?’ must be put aside for bliss. Joseph Campbell
  • Why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world–to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want. Ayn Rand
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If you’re not enjoying your life, change something 

  • I look in the mirror every morning and ask myself, “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “no” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Steve Jobs
  • You’ve got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you’re not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.  Steven D. Woodhull
  • Every once in a while, ask yourself the question, “If money weren’t a consideration, what would I like to be doing?” Jackson Brown Jr.
  • He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day…needs to reorganize his life. George Matthew Adams
  • Change
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Stop doing what you don’t enjoy 

  • If you hate doing something, figure out a way to stop doing it. This can sometimes be very easy, but other times it means eventually making a drastic life change. Leo Babauta
  • Dropping the things I hate frees me up to do the things I love. How much more skillful, soulful, and useful could your best work get if you didn’t spend so much energy pushing yourself into doing stuff you hate? Leo Babauta
  • If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it. Ray Bradbury
  • Be a curator of your life. Slowly cut things out until you’re left only with what you love, with what’s necessary, with what makes you happy. Leo Babauta
  • If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. Kahlil Gibran
  • If you are not enjoying yourself, you are wasting time. Susan Jeffers
  • When we don’t enjoy what we do, we only nick the surface of our potential. Dennis Wholey
  • If it ain’t fun, don’t do it. Jack Canfield
  • It’s pretty hard to get what you want when you’re busy doing and being what you don’t want. Cheryl Janecky
  • Who are you trying to impress? What do you have to force yourself to do? What would you like to never, ever do again? Danielle LaPorte
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Affirmation 

I shall monitor my energy exchanges and do more of the things that give me energy and less of the things that take it away. Marelisa Fabrega 

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On a lighter note

  • Taking a job just to build a resume is like saving up sex for old age. Warren Buffett
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