Quotes About Fulfillment

Someone once said that scientists and prostitutes get paid for doing what they enjoy.

What does writing let you do that you couldn't do otherwise?" I answered, quickly, that it let me live the life I loved and to do odd things—falconry, travel, animal keeping. And, I added, "sometimes get paid for them.

Your quality of life is directly tied to the amount of love flowing in you and through you to others. Though it's often overlooked, love is infinitely more valuable than riches, fame, or honor. They will pass away, but love remains.

Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.

You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.

You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end and ka is always served.

Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it (whatever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes are ready to fall out of your head. Even when no one is listening (or reading or watching), every outing is a bravura performance, because you as the creator are happy. Perhaps even ecstatic.

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

Everyone needs a hobby," he said. "And everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one long trudge from the cradle to the grave.

I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal.

no one dies happy, you can only die well

Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up first.

Bird and bear and hare and fish, give my love her fondest wish.

How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.

A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don't know how poorly off they are.

Give me what I want and I will go away

Being needed is a great thing. Maybe the great thing.

When you get old, peace is about all you want.

Women buy stuff at sales for the same reason men climb mountains—because they're there.

The worst thing about wishes is that sometimes they come true

You still owe a debt. Pay it.

don't give me what I ask for, give me what I need...