Janet Fitch Quotes

I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'

Do what you love. Do what is important to you and your family. I just want to encourage people to just go for it and do what makes sense to you.

Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Wanting some other way to live is proof enough of deserving it. Having it is hard work, but not having it is sheer hell.

Don't stop doing what you love. Don't let your future be ruined by a bunch of loony sand monkeys.

Success is the ability to live your life, the way you want to live it, doing what you enjoy most, surrounded by people you admire and respect.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don't really need to have New Year's resolutions.

At the end of the day, somebody someday is going to say something about you. At least you can look back and say you lived the way you wanted to.

Drama made me happy. Being on stage made me feel alive. But I did what a lot of people do, and that's follow this path of leaving school and going to university. It was only at university that I realised the only thing that would make me a satisfied man was to do what I loved.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

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.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

I'm not going to give up enjoying my life and doing the things that I'm interested in doing.

I am interested in the idea that people should be able to define their own happiness.

I want to inspire people to follow their own dream, not what the world wants for them.

I think - and even with the Live Chin Up movement - it's about women doing things for themselves. Being empowered. Doing things that make you happy. I believe in that philosophy.

I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want.

I’ll tell you what it’s time to do right now. It’s time to set your schedule in order so that you don’t look back on the day of your death and wonder why you never really lived. It’s time to ignore the opinions of those who think your life should be all about their cause, their rules, their agenda, and not your soul’s desire. It’s time to stop flagellating and start dancing.

You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want.

The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.

When a child has a dream and a parent says, "It's not financially feasible; you can't make a living at that; don't do it," we say to the child, run away from home... You must follow your dream. You will never be joyful if you don't. Your dream may change, but you've got to stay after your dreams. You have to.

So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however short, as your nature demands. Focus on that, and don't let anything distract you. You've wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live. Not in syllogisms, not in money, or fame, or self-indulgence. Nowhere.

No matter what you achieve in life, you're always wondering, 'Is there something I should be doing? Is there something I'm missing?

I certainly won't have an empty life!

I just kind of take every day at a time. I just know that I don't do anything that I don't want to do; I enjoy everything that I do and that's what you have to do to keep it good and keep it real.