Quotes About Fulfillment

There are moments that cry out to be fulfilled. Like, telling someone you love them. Or giving your money away, all of it. Your heart is beating, isn't it? You're not in chains, are you? There is nothing more pathetic than caution when headlong might save a life, even, possibly, your own.

It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.

Have I lived enough? Have I loved enough? Have I considered Right Action enough, have I come to any conclusion? Have I experienced happiness with sufficient gratitude? Have I endured loneliness with grace? - A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver

how could there be a day in your whole life that doesn't have its splash of happiness?

When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it's over, I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened or full of argument. I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

Joy is not made to be a crumb. (Don't Hesitate)

I don't want you just to sit down at the table. I don't want you just to eat, and be content. I want you to walk out into the fields where the water is shining, and the rice has risen. I want you to stand there, far from the white tablecloth. I want you to fill your hands with the mud, like a blessing.

in this world I am as rich as I need to be.

The poem was made not just to exist, but to speak—to be company. It was everything that was needed, when everything was needed.

I am so happy to be alive in this world I would like to live forever, but I am content not to. Seeing what I have seen has filled me; believing what I believe has filled me.

I don't want to end up simply having visited the world.

that is to say, having chosen to claim my life, I have made for myself, out of work and love, a handsome life.

there is still somewhere deep within you a beast shouting that the earth is exactly what it wanted— each pond with its blazing lilies is a prayer heard and answered lavishly, every morning, whether or not you have ever dared to be happy, whether or not you have ever dared to pray.

This I have always known - that if I did not live my life immersed in the one activity which suits me, and which also, to tell the truth, keeps me utterly happy and intrigued, I would come someday to bitter and mortal regret.

When it's over, I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

else the responsibility for your life.

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There is still somewhere deep within you a beast shouting that the earth is exactly what it wanted --

I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.

What do you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

When it's over, I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

As though they have been told everything already, and are content.

to know our world is to be busy all day long with happiness.

There are moments that cry out to be fulfilled.