Meaningful Activity Quotes

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

When work is what you love to do, it's not work - it's serving.

All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working. There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called 'mate,' to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.

The secret to it all is just to enjoy what you're doing. This is not working at the coal face, this is not sweeping behind a restaurant. It's work, but it's not work. It gives me a different type of energy. I'm grateful for that.

I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.

Writing gave me a life.

Work is the most nourishing thing so far in my life.

I injured myself quite badly when I was seventeen. I broke my ankle, and it didn't heal in such a way that I could keep dancing at the level I wanted to. It wasn't like, 'Oh my god, I'll never play the violin again.' I could, but not at the level I wanted. So, I segued into acting, the other thing that was also meaningful to me.

Music has always been an incredibly significant part of my life and a meaningful way in which I express myself.

Work is as much a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing that can be called work still imagine they are doing something. The world has not a man who is an idler in his own eyes.

When I first left the Eagles, I said, 'That's it. I'm going to play golf.' After 10 days, it was like... there has to be more to life! I can still swing a golf club, and don't forget, Les Paul played until he literally passed away.

I'm really, really enjoying myself, I seem to have a lot of purpose in my life. I'm enjoying what I'm doing, you know, and people are liking it. So, it's great, you know.

For a man without hobbies, I stand in a wonderful spot, where what I do is my best hobby, and everything else is a poor second.

While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.

You can do so much in ten minutes' time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.

It's a great job for a retired person. They feel a little important, get out of the house.

I think one of the things that is essential for happiness in life, or at least for non-sadness, is producing something. I guess that's why I spend so much time and agony writing books. But working on carpentry is sort of like all the pleasure with none of the agony.

I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. I can't imagine a totally idle life.

I've never been a fan of just doing. I like to do things for a reason.

You've got to do something to fill up your day. And I can only play so much guitar and watch so many TV shows. It fulfills me. There are two things about it I like: It makes me happy, and it makes other people happy.

I sort of cringe when I hear myself say the word 'work.' Getting to do something you love to do never really feels like work.

I won't ever play something just for the sake of playing it, why would I do that?

It's an amazing blessing to do something you love.

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.