Jose Gonzalez Quotes

The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.

And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.

Prancing around on stage is not the entire purpose of my life.

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.

I'm a person who has life and wants to live, and always have.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.

People have different concepts of the good life, and any attempt to impose one favored view will be contentious.

I never thought I'd be using this phrase, but the pursuit of happiness - that's my right.

You should run your life not by the calendar but how you feel, and what you're interests are and ambitions.

I think that titles are for, I don't know, books and stuff. I just like doing what I'm doing.

I don't want to live my life to entertain other people. I have other things that I'd like to do.

I feel one should do things which pleases them, and my progression into super model then to an actress and now to an entrepreneur is based on this.

I'm going to do anything in my power to keep creating the path that I want to go down and I want to be a part of and be involved with, and whether or not that means superstardom or making music for the rest of my life and not having to work at a coffee shop, I'm fine. I'm happy. I'm stoked for whatever opportunity arises.

My parents have always encouraged me to follow my dreams and do what makes me happy.

As long as I'm building and doing what I want to do, that's the only thing that matters.

I chase dreams that fulfill me and not a dream that somebody else describes to me.

The purpose of life is to be happy. I don't think it's any more complicated than that. It's also important not to interfere with anybody else's right to do the same. We just need to practice that. It's the Golden Rule.

My goal was just to live a good life that I was happy with. And I wasn't exactly sure that that meant being the star of a movie.

I'm not a masochist. I'm simply into trying to enjoy what I do, because otherwise there's no point.

P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That's the human dashboard.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.

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.