Quotes About Fulfillment

PEOPLE SEARCH relentlessly for a "city of happiness"—not realizing that it could only be found in a "state of mind." —RABBI AVRAHAM PAM (1913–2001)

THE SINGLE, INTEGRATED inner experience of caring for, respecting, and bonding to another is love. The object of your love is one whom you care about even more than you are concerned for your own self. You would do or give what the other needs without the slightest feeling that what you have done or given is a sacrifice at all. Those acts and gifts are the fulfillment of love, and life.

Who is rich?" asks Ben Zoma,17 and he answers, "One who is content with his lot.

Who is rich?" and then answers, "He who rejoices in his own lot.

Rabbi Elyakim Krumbein puts it, "To fulfill the Torah means to grow as a person, and to grow truly as a person is tantamount to the fulfillment of Torah.

We humans have a tendency to always want more. Therefore it is easy to forget to feel grateful and happy with the good that we already have. We should strive to feel a joy that is complete. Lack of joy with what we have is destructive both physically and spiritually.

The pursuit of comforts and pleasure depletes spiritual energy simply because we have only so much energy in our lives. We waste precious energy by running after the shiny apple, and then we have nothing left for higher pursuits.

The older he got, the more he appreciated the sublime pleasures of the life of the mind, to which he now sought to devote himself almost exclusively.

So often multitudes of people gather around some broken cistern of this world, trying to satisfy their thirst for they know not what. They grumble about their troubles and complain about their lot, but how few of them run to the One who said, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water" (John 7:37–38).

She found in him the peace she so desperately sought but never really found in herself.

perhaps that's the secret. Perhaps what people should really ask is, "are you content?" It's about getting in touch with reality. About balancing aspirations and actuality.

That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

The things we have most longed for do not happen; or if they do, it is never at the time nor under the circumstances when they could have made us happiest.

I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

My three addictions of choice are food, love and work.

Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!

I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.

I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.

What satisfaction do you, personally, get from being a writer?" Lanark tried to remember. He said, "It's the only disciplined work I remember trying. I sleep better for it.

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.

Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.