Quotes About Fulfillment

I was sick of wanting money. I was sick of being without a goal.

Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.

Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and of having one, two, three beers while watching crime shows and CNN. I completely forgot the hateful sensation of loneliness, like thirst and hunger together pressing on my stomach.

You know, from what I've seen, at twenty you know you're not going to be a rock star. By twenty-five, you know you're not going to be a dentist or a professional. And by thirty, a darkness starts moving in - you wonder if you're ever going to be fulfilled, let alone wealthy or successful. By thirty-five, you know, basically, what you're going to be doing the rest of your life; you become resigned to your fate.

I broke out into a sweat and the worlds of Rilke, the poet, entered my brain -- his notion that we are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.

When you're young, you feel like life hasn't yet begun, like life is scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidays - whenever. But suddenly you're old, and the scheduled life never arrived. I find myself asking, 'Well, then, exactly what was it I was doing with all that time I had before I thought my life would begin?

And for a while they were happy in their own manner; they had the animal confidence money affords.

I was convinced that all of the people I'd ever gone to school with were headed for great things in life and I wasn't. They were having more fun; finding more meaning in life.

Signature refers to those elements that make the crime emotionally satisfying or fulfilling to the offender, such as binding or torture, photographs, humiliation

Women have married because it was necessary, in order to economically, in order to have children who would not suffer economic deprivation or social ostracism, in order to remain respectable, in order to do what was expected of women because coming out of 'abnormal' childhoods they wanted to feel 'normal,"and because heterosexual romance has been represented as the great female adventure, duty, and fulfillment

Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.

As Jesus says in the Gospel of Thomas, "If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you." [Gospel of Thomas 70]

Those who are free don't want anything. They don't want anything from their mind, they don't want anything from their emotions, they don't want anything from anyone, and they don't want anything from life. They don't want anything. If you don't want, all that's left is an incredible sense of being free.

With a true and authentic awakening, who and what we are becomes clear. There's no longer a question about it; it is a done deal. In this way, one of the hallmarks of a true awakening is the end of seeking. You no longer feel the momentum, the push and the pull. The seeker has been revealed as the virtual reality it always was, and as such it disappears. The seeker has in some sense accomplished its task.

Success is man's god.

Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

Obedience is the mother of success, and the wife of security.

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.

God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.

Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.

Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness.

Be satisfied with what you have.

A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers.