Quotes About Fulfillment

There is one thing we know about meaning: that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than you are.

When I look into her searching blue eyes, I am filled with wonder and an urgent sense of desire. I want to be a better woman, to walk this path of life well beside her, to point her towards God's fingerprints and kindness, to live a full, abundant life so that she, too, can know that she is free to live into hers.

We are hungry for the sustenance of sturdy, deep friendships, but we are fed an idea of friendship that is neither nourishing nor satisfying. Friendship can and must be so much more.

We should never expect the world to behave according to our morality, our standards of holiness, or our wisdom. Jesus would still call us to "owe them our love" to fulfill the law.

I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!

My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'

You will never rise to your greatest potential by being all things to all people.

An eternally favorite deadly sin, lust fascinates through experience: our appetites and passions of sight, sound, taste, touch, and scent. We anticipate what it might be like to fulfill a craving, and that anticipation pulls us closer. As early as the sixth century AD, lust emerged as public enemy number one for Christians. And not without reason. Overcoming desire is no easy task. Buddhism presents the overcoming of desire as an ideal.

Emblems fulfill a deep, instinctive need because they say something about us. Abraham Maslow calls this "esteem": the need to feel important, respected, and recognized as an achiever. We satisfy this need by communicating our value to the world around us.

I might not be famous one day. But I'd still be happy.

I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.

You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that.

I aim for a lifetime full of movies.

LIFE SHOULD BE ENJOYED UPTO ITS EXTENT.

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

To cultivate love, or whole-soul-fulness, we must resist the temptation to be upwardly mobile, to be always on the move, to pull up our roots and fly to the mythic kingdom of Elsewhere.

A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

You pay a whore to make you feel like a man, you fund a philharmonic to make yourself feel like a refined man.

Do not try to be the best, be happy of who you are.

Los sueños de comida son como cualquier otro sueño: puedes vivir de ellos, mientras no te mueras.

Quien no siente el deseo de volver a vivir la vida es porque la ha desperdiciado.

I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.

Earthly joys are fragmented beams, but God is the sun. Earthly