Quotes About Fulfillment

Engaging in activities devoid of difficulty, lounging in risk-free zones, is life without great meaning.

they were happy, in the ordinary ways which had evaded them for so long.

The author and screenwriter William Goldman says that "the key to all story endings is to give the audience what it wants, but not in the way it expects.

The unfortunate, truly exciting thing about your life is that there is no core curriculum. . . . So don't worry about your grade or the results or success. Success is defined in myriad ways, and you will find it, and people will no longer be grading you.

I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor.

I'm really proud of 'Moneyball.' To me, it's about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I'm an old man I'll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That's all I can really go for: making movies to please me.

Sometimes, anticipation feels better than fulfillment.

The more toys children have, the less likely that they would enjoy any of them.

Jag vill, i mitt liv, få älska någon som älskar mig.

I samma sekund Benjamin blir varse den nytillkomne hejdar han sig i steget, är för ett ögonblick alldeles stilla, och han vet att det är hit, till detta ögonblick, till detta möte, till denne man, som hela hans rörelse har syftat. Det är hit han hela tiden har gått.

Reason? When you touch a ball charged with electricity, does the electricity have a reason to discharge itself? Or an apple, to grow, to ripen, to fall? Or to do good to a child? Or to be a mother? To love? To create? The best things have no need, no reason, they happen, the same as when you release an object and it falls.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

I know I experience great consolation when my mouth is between a woman's legs. I think it must be because I'm drinking in her happiness.

By the way, once you get over your dependence, you may actually find, as this client did, that it feels good to be self-sufficient; your resourcefulness will then build your self-esteem and give you confidence.)

The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.

Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money.

Seek joyfulness when you can, for seeking joy leads to an auspicious atmosphere.

I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

There is no such thing as excess in our taking of this spiritual food. There is no such virtue as temperance in spiritual feasting.

A choosing of their God and their people, with a full determination and with the whole soul, is the condition of an union with them. God gives every man his choice in this matter: as Orpah and Ruth had their choice, whether they would go with Naomi into the land of Israel, or stay in the land of Moab.

There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.

Leo Tolstoy wrote: "One can live magnificently in this world, if one knows how to work and how to love, to work for the person one loves and to love one's work."19

Happiness comes from between. It comes from getting the right relationships between yourself and others, yourself and your work, and yourself and something larger than yourself.