Besides, what else am I meant to be doing? I didn't laze…

I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on…

— Natalie Goldberg

When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing, when your activities and actions become gratifying and purposeful, when what…

— Gary Zukav

Francisco could do anything he undertook, he could do it better than anyone else, and he did it without effort. There was no boasting…

— Ayn Rand

We were not having any fun, he had recently begun pointing out. I would take exception (didn't we do this, didn't we do that)…

— Joan Didion

When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing...you are doing what you were meant to be doing.

— Gary Zukav

“Maybe this was the job of a mother: to buy time for her child, no matter what. Even if it meant doing something she'd…

— Jodi Picoult

I actually used to say it to my mother and my sister all the time. I used to say, 'I just know I am…

— Maura Higgins

“He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we…

— Joan Didion

“When I met you, I thought we were meant for each other, even though, in some ways, seemed very different and we kept fighting.…

— julianna baggott

I like what I'm doing. If I didn't like what I was doing, I'd be doing something else.

— Bobby Kotick

Everything I was doing when I didn't have deals was preparing me for when I did

— Tim Gordon

“Finally, she was doing something. She didn't know what, exactly, but action always suited her better than waiting around.”

— Ann Brashares

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

— Jonathan Franzen

Maybe he didn’t really encourage me to do things, but he didn’t prevent me from doing them either. But after a while, I didn’t…

— Stephen Chbosky

I thought in terms of the enthusiasm of doing it. I didn't think about whether I was ready.

— Elmer Bernstein