Quotes About Fulfillment

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

Remember that the true pleasures of life consist in the exertion of our own powers. If you were to feast every day upon roasted partridges from off Dresden china, and dip your whiskers in syllabubs and creams, it could never give you such true enjoyment as the commonest food procured by the labor of your own paws.

I made it to the moon and nothing changed.

You've got to be responsible for your own happiness -- you can't expect it to come flopping through the door like a parcel.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. JOSEPH CAMPBELL What

When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness. . . . I was right. —GAHAN WILSON

Why is being in the military like a blow job? The closer you get to discharge, the better you feel.

reduce mental interferences that inhibit the full expression of human potential

The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.

Life is so much easier when you just give people what they expect.

I don't know how to quantify the way I am around her, the person I am. When I'm with her, I feel hope. Possibility. It clings to me like a scent.

Focus on what makes you happy, and do what gives meaning to your life

The secret to happiness is low expectations.

The alternative to maximizing is to be a satisficer. To satisfice is to settle for something that is good enough and not worry about the possibility that there might be something better.

Happiness as a goal is a recipe for disaster.

The existence of multiple alternatives makes it easy for us to imagine alternatives that don't exist—alternatives that combine the attractive features of the ones that do exist. And to the extent that we engage our imaginations in this way, we will be even less satisfied with the alternative we end up choosing. So, once again, a greater variety of choices actually makes us feel worse.

We get what we say we want, only to discover that what we want doesn't satisfy us to the degree that we expect.

I was born for better things.

The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Joy is a man's passage from a lesser to a greater perfection.

You already own what you think you need.

Your purpose is to be YOU as fully as you can and the way that's perhaps most easily done is to act on your highest joy.