Quotes About Fulfillment

If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.

I have to come to realize that God does not want to punish us, but rather, to fulfill our lives. God created us, loves us and wants to help us to realize our potential so that we can be useful to others.

Work as if you were to live a thousand years, play as if you were to die tomorrow.

You only have the right to pursue happiness; you have to catch it yourself.

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

Men die when they are finished living...

What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better of life in!—in scattering compliments, tendering visits, gathering and venting news, following feasts and plays, making a little winter love in a dark corner.

True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth and choice.

What is the use of living if you cannot eat cheese and pickles?' she asked. As cofounder of the Cheese Eaters League, Ivor thought she had a point.

Besides, you are seeking something you have already found but don't knoit. Such are the causes of unhappiness.

Besides, you are seeking something you have already found, but don't know it. Such are the causes of unhappiness.

a dream can be the highest point of a life

But he accomplished what he set out to do, multiplying the firm's profits many times over.

He saw the firm's success as a personal validation.

Like my father, I grew distracted and unhappy when I could not usefully occupy my time.

Now the time had come to put my ideas into practice.

The closer I got to my finish line, that rubbley (ph) rocky coast of Ross Island, the more I started to realize that the biggest lesson that this very long, very-hard walk might be teaching me is that happiness is not a finish line and that if we can't feel content on our journeys amidst the mess and the striving that we all inhabit - the open loops, the half-finished to-do lists, the could-do-better-next-times - then we might never feel it.

Never in our country's history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged—and yet so empty.

Lasting happiness can only be achieved through cultivation of soul and mind. And cultivating our souls and minds requires us to live with moral purpose.

Over the latter half of the twentieth century, the forces of moral relativism, radical feminism, and generational nihilism have gradually destroyed the foundation of our own greatness. Instead of adopting stronger moral standards, our society has embraced the lure of personal fulfillment.

Like the Bible, Aristotle didn't define happiness as temporary joy. He saw happiness in a life well-lived.

Happiness is the pursuit of purpose in our lives. If we have lived with moral purpose, even death becomes less painful.

The modern mind rebels at this notion—the notion of something's virtue tied to its inherent purpose. Nature, we believe, is blind and valueless—we don't blame a snake for biting or a baby for crying. But that's not what the ancients meant by virtue. They didn't mean our modern moral sense of "virtue"—being a nice person, or something similarly vague. They meant fulfilling the telos for which you were created.

Whereas modern systems of morality focus far more on whether given actions are good or evil, ancient ethical systems worried less about rules for action, and more about making men and women virtuous people—people capable of fulfilling their telos as human beings, and utilizing reason and character to carry out complex moral equations.