Quotes About Fulfillment

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

business of man is to be happy

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this world. He that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be but little the better for anything else. Men's happiness or misery is most part of their own making. He, whose mind directs not wisely, will never take the right way; and he, whose body is crazy and feeble, will never be able to advance in it.

Our manifest destiny is to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.

people work best and hardest in a place where they know they are valued.

The most important thing in life is not happiness but meaning.

the fulfillment from living a meaningful life is the ROE (Return on Emotion). A certain kind of more is always better than less-more care, more love, and more meaningful actions.

We are created for something more serious than just a day-to-day survival.

Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.

Well, I've learnt this much: it doesn't matter what it costs, it's worth paying the price. You can't live cheap and you can't live for nothing. Pay the price and be proud you've paid it, that's what I reckon.

Live as though you'll die tomorrow, but farm as though you'll live forever.

The days that make us happy make us wise.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

This book began with the assertion that Margaret Fuller's life was her most remarkable creation. It is just possible, however, that her most wonderful creations may still lie in the future. Fuller's most precious gift to us may reside in the ideas and the works, still yet to be imagined, of women and men who follow her example. We may decide that, despite all that Margaret Fuller endured and suffered in order to become exceptional, her life, or rather her lives, well deserve imitating.

Emerson decried the life of the average person, so intent on satisfying the monotonous wants of an unexceptional life that the omnipresent miracles of the universe are invisible to him. Let the sun go up the sky, and the moon shine, and innumerable stars move before him in orbits so vast that centuries will not fulfill them…. He does not care—he does not know—he is creeping in a little path of his own…following a few appetites…peering around for a little bread.

A man who is not as evolved as the woman he is with will hold her back, drain her spirit, and prevent the film of her life playing out to its intended conclusion.

Finding heaven while still on earth is one thing. What do we do with it once we've got it?

There is a supernal intelligence behind sexual arousal, the true purpose of which is to create for us ecstatic experiences of our own divinity.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

before their time, but that isn't the truth. What God and good luck provide we must accept with gratitude. Our time is our time. It's up to us to make the most of it, make it amount to more than the sum of our days.

No matter what job you get,' he told my mother, 'you can make a good one out of it