Quotes About Fulfillment

Money is not the destination on your life's road trip; it's just the gas to help you enjoy the journey.

Think I have made a terrible mistake going to college. Have decided to become a shepherd and spend my days tending to flocks of goats

We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.

At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.

you always have to keep things fun. if you don't, no matter how many awards you win or how much money you make, you will never be happy.

If you feel like you're being called to something, answer it. A dream you don't answer becomes a nightmare.

This is your life, your one and only life, so take excellence very personally.

I have only two wishes," said Jean. "The first is for strong coffee, and the second is for stronger coffee.

Hope is what we all build lives for ourselves upon, is it not?

Full glass is an empty promise.

What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to piss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time?

The deepest American dream is not the hunger for money or fame it is the dream of settling down, in peace and freedom and cooperation, in the promised land.

I was created to be destroyed.

We all know perfectly well that the man who lives out his life as a consumer," he writes in "The Coming Crisis in Psychiatry," "a sexual partner, an 'other-directed' executive; who avoids boredom and anxiety by consuming tons of newsprint, miles of film, years of TV time; that such a man has somehow betrayed his destiny as a human being.

Was love worth not having the life you wanted?

He that loves the law will get his fill of it.

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another. (Gal. 5:13–15)

He made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment—to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ. (Eph. 1:9–10 NIV)

We only foolishly think there's some set of circumstances, some person, some relationship, some change in our world, some sensual experience that can satisfy the restlessness in our hearts. But we're made for you, Jesus—designed to be fulfilled and completed only by you. You are the most loving and tender bridegroom who cherishes a most unlikely and ill-deserving bride.

Only your love is better than life, Jesus. Only your love meets the deepest needs of my whole being and satisfies my most intense longings. Only your love is unwavering, Jesus, for all other loves are filled with conditions and contingencies. Only your love is unfailing, Jesus, for all other loves are fickle and finite.

For Jesus is our Joshua—the one who has saved us, is saving us, and one day will completely save us. Without any embarrassment or fear of cliché, I gladly affirm: Jesus saves!

The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at night dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast.

I composed habits for those acres so that my last look would be neither gluttonous nor starved. I was ready to go anywhere.

Never, since my hand could hold a shield have I entrusted or given control of the Danes' hall to anyone but you. … There's nothing you wish for that won't be yours