“What you're really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.”

“A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

“Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.”

Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation

“Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do.”

Jennifer Aniston (1969) television and film actress from the United States

“Now we have hands-free phones, so you can focus on the thing you're really supposed to be doing … chances are, if you need both of your hands to do something, your brain should be in on it too.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

“It's the way you play that makes it. What I say is, for Christ's sake, you don't have to kill yourself to sing. Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it, if you're going to get it. And whatever you get, that's you, so that's your story.”

Count Basie (1904–1984) American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer

“Really, I'm trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings. Well, she's singing, but it doesn't appear to be over”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

“It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.”

David Gilmour (1946) guitarist, singer, best known as a member of Pink Floyd

“Is what you're about to do more likely to expand or limit your ability to get what you really want? Executive intelligence.”

David Allen (1945) American productivity consultant and author

“And sometimes when you're on
You're really fucking on
And your friends they sing along
And they love you
But the lows are so extreme
That the good seems fucking cheap
And it teases you for weeks in its absence”

Jenny Lewis (1976) American actor, singer-songwriter