Cary Fukunaga Quotes

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.

Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?

Do not waste this life in vain pursuits.

I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.

Make your life a mission - not an intermission.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Do Not Waste Your Life Lightly

Why would you spend your life and your time doing something that's insignificant?

I don't do anything just for the sake of it. I don't live my life for the sake of it.

I just think that everything is symbolic, and who you are determines everything that you do, small moves and big moves.

Real happiness comes from discovering a sense of importance in one's actions and in one's life.

It is what we do with our lives that counts.

It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a me too attitude while impressing evokes a so what attitude.

The importance of my legacy is not the golf course, it's what my life is, and what my life is intended to be. The game of golf is a game. My family is my life.

As you get older, all those dumb clichés, they're all true. You only have a certain amount of time left, and you should only spend it doing the things that you want to do. It's all true.

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't.

First and foremost, you do not have to live up to or emulate the lives of any of your predecessors. But at the very least, you should know about them. You will have your own life, interests, and ideas of what you want or do not want in life. Do what you enjoy doing. Be honest with yourself and others. Don't think of satisfying anyone: your elders, peers, government, religion, or children who will come after you. Develop meaningful ideals, and become conscious of others, their existence, and their lives.

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive... To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.

Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

We are given so few years on this earth, and there are so many good things that get in the way of the best things. We must live for eternity.

The hours of your life are the most valuable currency you will ever have. How will you spend them?

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.