Quotes About Fulfillment

And always remember the ultimate truth: life is not about money, it's about emotion.

Prove to yourself that you've decided now. Make one or two decisions that you've been putting off: one easy decision and one that's a bit more difficult. Show yourself what you can do. Right now, stop. Make at least one clear-cut decision that you've been putting off—take the first action toward fulfilling it—and stick to it! By doing this, you'll be building that muscle that will give you the will to change your entire life.

What you get will never make you happy; who you become will make you very happy or very sad." If each day you make just a little progress, you will feel the joy that comes with personal growth. And that leads to perhaps one of the most important lessons I have learned about big goals and achievement.

Porque no hay poder como el del estado de plenitud de recursos.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. —MARK TWAIN

Or you can keep right on working with a smile on your face and a song in your heart, knowing that you're working because you want to, not because you have to.

While it's time to master your money, don't wait to master yourself. The fastest way to feel connection, a sense of how significant your life is, a deep sense of certainty and variety, and put yourself in a state where you can give to others, is to find a way each day to appreciate more and expect less. The wealthiest person on earth is one who appreciates.

Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

Money is certainly one of the ways we can turn the dreams we have into the reality we live.

Money is simply a vehicle for trying to meet our needs, and not just our financial needs.

Life is really about creating meaning. And meaning does not come from what you get, it comes from what you give. Ultimately, what you get will never make you happy long term. But who you become and what you contribute will.

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is entrusted to you, that the world looks on and approves, that some good is always being done to others -- above all things some good to your country; -- that is happiness.

Her happiness, like that of most of us, was ever in the future,—never reached but always coming. 

But she knew this,—that it was necessary for her happiness that she should devote herself to some one. All the elegancies and outward charms of life were delightful, if only they could be used as the means to some end. As an end themselves they were nothing.

The end of a novel, like the end of children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plum

Eating is an occupation from which I think a man takes the more pleasure the less he considers it. A rural labourer who sits on the ditch-side with his bread and cheese and an onion has more enjoyment out of it than any Lucullus

reached Plumstead

CHAPTER LXX AT LAST

Who were the happy people that were driven neither by ambition, nor poverty, nor greed, nor the cross purposes of unhappy love, to stifle and trample upon their feelings?

CHAPTER LXXV ARABELLA'S SUCCESS

Whether it be a bad life or a good life," said Lady Laura, "you and I understand equally well that no other life is worth having after it. We are like the actors, who cannot bear to be away from the gaslights when once they have lived amidst their glare.

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it.