Quotes About Fulfillment

Never feel ashamed of your longing for happiness.

carrying on a conversation at dinner and texting under the table.... Continuous Partial Attention involves an artificial sense of constant crisis, of living in a 24/7, always-on world. It contributes to feeling stressed, overwhelmed, overstimulated, and unfulfilled; it compromises our ability to reflect, to make decisions, and to think creatively.

Much of our day we are pushed around by unhelpful habits such as being distracted or disconnected, holding on too long when circumstances have already changed, or not being wholehearted in pursuing an opportunity. Meditation can open us to alternative responses such as focus, awareness, and productive questioning and that leads to more fulfillment and better work.

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how.

No woman is a more vibrant instrument in the hands of the Lord than a woman of God who is thrilled to be who she is.

It is not possible to sin enough to be happy. It isn't possible to buy enough to be happy, or to entertain or indulge or pamper ourselves enough to be happy. It is not possible to hide enough or run far enough away from trials and troubles to be happy. Happiness and joy come only when we are living up to who we are... I have never met anyone who was happier because he was immoral, or because he was addicted to something, or because he was dishonest and compromised his integrity.

Am I the woman I think I am, the woman I want to be? More importantly, am I the woman the Savior needs me to be?

I can't imagine pain greater than stepping across the veil and realizing I had not done what I came here to do - or realizing that I had given up my life to little or nothing, only then to find that it was gone. p 3

The more we sense...our ultimate potential, the more determined we become to achieve it. It's the difference between your mother hounding you to practice the piano and reaching the point where you want to do it yourself. You simply will not be denied the ultimate reward and the joy of the Big Finish. p 90

do whatever it was they expected her to do because they were always expecting her to do something more or be something more until it didn't feel like there was enough of her left to go around.

One should not want to be anything but what one is, because it creates unhappiness.

The sadness of men- mankind, I guess you'd say. It's that we never have time to be what we know we should be, or could be. And it's not because of the time itself, the gods know we waste enough of it not doing anything at all, but because of what we are.... It's caring so much that keeps us from being what we could be. Caring so much. About the wrong things maybe. But still, if we didn't what would we be?

He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous

They're not starving to death, but they look hollow-eyed and barren, like they've been fed just enough food but never enough happiness.

I wanted to live up to expectations. I guess that's what it comes down to. The power of expectations. And

There is a good day to die and there is a good day to play the piano.

Remember this: men and pornography are like plants and sunshine. To me, porn is photosynthesis.

All I owe the world is my art

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

May you get exactly what you want and live long enough to regret it.

Just out of curiosity, how many weapons are in that thing? (Kiara) Enough to make me happy. (Nykyrian)

We must spoil our women, boy. A happy woman makes a happy home. An unhappy one makes us drink.

But don't ever let yourself forget that the person you care about fills an emptiness no one else ever has and that while life with them can seriously suck at times, those moments when it doesn't are worth all the aggravation of falling into the toilet and getting soaked when you're half asleep.

Here I am! Now what are your other two wishes