Quotes About Fulfillment

It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.

I get up every day, do the best that I can do, and go home and have a good time.

Had I not spent so much time doing something that made me so miserable, I would have never learned how to appreciate doing what brings me joy.

Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness when a glorious idea comes to mind and, secondly, when a last page has been written and you haven't had time to know how much better it ought to be.

Next time say my name. You'll come more

I was happy because I was acting. Most of the time for nothing. But I was learning and to learn that you can learn opens up the world for you.

And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.

My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years.

The best thing about being a best-selling writer is being a best-selling writer. More seriously, today I can write full time and pay the bills.

I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.

I'd worked so hard that by the time I was 20, I wanted to play hard. And I did that really well.

At one time or another, everyone's had the rom-com itch that needs to be scratched.

It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.

I didn't really start publishing books until I was 40 because I was busy being a McDonald's employee. So there's always a sense of trying to make up for lost time.

While you're busy chasing your dream, don't forget to leave time for living - it's way too easy to run straight past what's truly important.

A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: "You will die before you can do anything else".

I think, with the administration they do Constitutionally-mandated things most of the time, but they don't - they fulfill the letter of their obligation to checks and balances, but not the intent.

I really enjoy what I do and have been fortunate to pursue basically whatever I'm feeling at the time.

There's tons of people that spend a lot time watching their well being, they have not acquired time to take pleasure in it.

When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.

If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap - not just to avoid the idea of dying, it's to fill some particular gap in ourselves.

For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.