Quotes About Fulfillment

This was the house that Paula had taken me and two other graduate students to years earlier. She had told us to go out on the deck, look at the view of the Atlantic Ocean, and say to ourselves, This is what playwriting can buy. Now

Motherhood is a predicament. How to live fully inside of it with any grace?

We may not get what we want, when we want. But with a bit of perseverance and a lot of patience, we can get what we need.

because she is already a doer who, I am certain, is fully capable of making all her dreams come true." Well, maybe not all> my dreams, I thought, smiling to Ian, who was smiling back. But most. Which was fine, since I'd learned that getting most of what you wish for in life is often as good as getting it all.

Buying is an extremely satisfying, macho act

Now she has turned up, saying all the things I dreamed she'd say.

It was heavy, and I staggered when I lifted it; but it was strangely satifying to have a real burden upon my shoulders – a kind of counterweight to my terrible heaviness of heart.

We have an original anxiety that stems from feeling we're missing something, that there's more to life, that we need to know where and how we connect with life. But to sit with our true selves causes another anxiety, a lonely, exposed anxiety. Then, if we flee this sitting with ourselves, we encounter the anxiety of, well, knowing that we're fleeing ourselves and truth. It's

AS THIS YEAR DRAWS TO A CLOSE, receive My Peace. This is still your deepest need, and I, your Prince of Peace, long to pour Myself into your neediness. My abundance and your emptiness are a perfect match. I designed you to have no sufficiency of your own. I created you as a jar of clay, set apart for sacred use. I want you to be filled with My very Being, permeated through and through with Peace.

YO HE PROMETIDO satisfacer todas tus necesidades según mis gloriosas riquezas.

Trust Me wholeheartedly, letting My Spirit fill you with Joy and Peace. ISAIAH 30:18; 1 KINGS 8:23; GALATIANS 5:22–23

This is the path I have set before you. As you follow it wholeheartedly, you experience abundant Life and Peace.

WHEN SOME BASIC NEED IS LACKING—time, energy, money—consider yourself blessed.

heaven, where you will know Me in ecstatic Joy.

It is impossible for you to have a need that I cannot meet.

Porque aunque pierdas todo lo que tienes, si tienes mi paz, eres rico.

Your sense of security must not rest in your possessions or in things going your way. I am training you to depend on Me alone, finding fulfillment in My Presence. This entails being satisfied with much or with little, accepting either as My will for the moment. Instead of grasping and controlling, you are learning to release and receive. Cultivate this receptive stance by trusting Me in every situation.

Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. PSALM 37 : 4

You are increasingly released to become the one I created you to be.

I need laughter. I need joy. I need to be happy. And I need to be loved, Hugh — deliriously, openly, continuously loved. And I need to be UNDERSTOOD.

Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.

Just once, I'd like to find a boy. And I like him and he likes me. And we have a laugh and the kissing's really good and there's no-one getting in the way of the laughing and the kissing. Is that too much to ask?

When the sun rises and shines, Not all the lotus buds in the lakes and ponds bloom, Only those that are ready, do. The rest have to bide their time, But all are destined to bloom, All have to fulfill that destiny. There is no need to despair.

Drop the delusion that you have become old or diseased, or that you have become weak and debilitated. Some people begin to count the years and grieve over advancing age and shudder like cowards afraid of death. But remember, elation is heaven, despondency is hell. Have always some work to do, and do it well that you will get joy.