Quotes About Fulfillment

Today I finally recognise the mistake that almost became my downfall: I expected too much out of life. I thought it would owe me happiness and cheerfulness. In fact, life offers neither good nor evil. Happiness is a fruit you cultivate and harvest inside your soul. You can not receive it from the outside. Why should I be fretful like a child that has got no gift? I have years ahead to be happy.

Frederick Buechner said, "The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

I was never meant to be this thing...

everything she meant to say was you've given a worth and happiness to my life that I had no right to believe could ever exist

Ubi nihil vales, ibi nihil velis: where you are worth nothing, there you should want nothing

A happy heart comes first, then the happy face.

Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this.

For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.

Romantic comedy heroines were seldom on top of the world, doing exactly what they'd always wanted to do.

A healthy marriage is the union of two already complete people who choose to invest in each other. Two people who drain each other because they have nothing to invest - only withdrawals to take from each other - make for a very unhealthy, unfulfilling relationships.

She answered by standing and kissing him first and held his cheeks and closed her eyes and felt sure as bones and deep as blood that she had found her place.

In some ways, I don't feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read and write, I was making up stories. I love reading and I love telling stories, and the times in my life when I've tried to ignore that part of me, I've gone a little crazy. Characters start tugging on my sleeves, words start haunting me, and I feel generally unsatisfied. Really, being a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.

Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life...go make your happily-ever-after happen.

A woman without hobbies is dangerously self-negligent.

I want to be happy. I used to want Mr. Darcy, laugh at me if you want, or the idea of him. Someone who made me feel all the time like I felt when I watched those movies.

Don't let the inconsequential fairy tales stand in your way! You do what makes you happy, no matter what.

I didn't raise you I be good and weak. I raised you to be powerful and happy.

My heart's so light it floats and carries me so my feet don't walk. I sing all day and I don't mind the washing, and that's how I know I'm in love. Completely smitten with My Lord the cat.

I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only person I'm trying to please.

Homemaking is not something that stands in the way of our deeper fulfillment; it becomes the ground that feeds it.

Yesterday that new lipstick made me very happy," I tell the counselor. "But today, it just doesn't seem like enough.

As long as you're happy, who cares what everybody else is doing?

An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.

Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears," Gram said. "If you have three or four –or more – chickabiddies, you're dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You don't have time to think about anything else. And if you've only got one or two, it's almost harder. You have room left over – empty spaces that you think you've got to fill up.