If there’s one thing that we can all agree on about Angelina Jolie, it’s that you probably either love her or hate her! There aren’t a lot of middle ground opinions about one of America’s biggest female stars who’s just as famous for her activism and her huge family with partner Brad Pitt. Another thing that we can agree on is that Angelina Jolie is not afraid to tell you what she’s thinking, and sometimes, what she’s thinking is actually quite moving, such as the quote below that we’ve chosen for our quote of the week.
“If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart.”
It breaks our heart too, Angelina! But we think there’s a simple reason for it. Most people are so incredibly wrapped up in the idea that they can’t be happy without earning more, owning more and having more that they don’t have the time to do what it is that they really want. And, on top of that, because they’re putting their time and financial resources into chasing the “consumer dream” instead of their real dream, they never save up the money or vacation time to do whatever it is that they really wanted to do in life.
Finding the satisfaction of enough is about identifying what it is that that you want. It’s about understanding how much of what you think you want is really what you want, and how much of it is what society has told you that you want. After you’ve done that, you can make an informed decision about what changes you want to make in your life in order to get to the place where you’re truly satisfied because you’ve found the things in life that make you truly satisfied.
Angelina Jolie. Even if sometimes she seems a little “off,” we love this quote and the thinking that went behind it. Now, what is it, exactly, that you want to do?
