Quotes About Fulfillment

Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing selves that are worth expressing.

It is not when a man is at the end of his life, but when a man is at the end of his profession, that his soul shows itself.

The mind of our country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself.

The simplest answer is that scientific management fulfilled too many hopes and prayers to be ignored merely on account of its logical and factual deficiencies.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

According to the philosopher Andre Comte-Sponville: The wise man has nothing left to expect or to hope for. Because he is entirely happy, he needs nothing. Because he needs nothing, he is entirely happy.

Being altruistic not only helps us to benefit others, but it is also the most satisfying way to live.

Happiness does not come automatically. It is not a gift that good fortune bestows upon us and a reversal of fortune takes back. It depends on us alone. One does not become happy overnight, but with patient labor, day after day. Happiness is constructed, and that requires effort and time. In order to become happy, we have to learn how to change ourselves. LUCA AND FRANCESCO CAVALLI-SFORZA

if you live feeling like Your glass is half empty, well, It may as well be empty all the way.

There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy.

The key to getting out of a bad relationship is being able to imagine something more fulfilling. --D. Travers Scott

Our lives can only hold so much. If they're filled with one thing, they can't be filled with another. We ought to do a lot of thinking about what we want to fill them with.

Our lives can only hold so much. If they're filled with one thing, they can't be filled with another. We ought to do a lot of thinking about what we want to fill them with.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

Settling is about not embracing what is best for you and accepting what you really don't want. When you settle, you accept less than you deserve. Settling becomes a habit and a way of life, but it doesn't have to be. According to Maureen Dowd, The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for

Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.

There is a mistaken notion that wealth makes people content. It does the opposite, generally. It stirs a hunger in many - and no matter what they eat, they will never be full.

Living well is the best revenge

I get to live by myself in a tree, doing some bullshit job for no one? This is my dream, Stevie. This is my dream.

Why was her life over when she was only seventeen? She'd peaked. It was done.

She was exactly who she wanted to be.

What greater wealth is there than to own your own life and to spend it on growing?

She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as their final expression, the purpose of all the things she loved on earth . . . To find a consciousness like her own, who would be the meaning of her world, as she would be of his... A man who existed only in her knowledge of her capacity for an emotion she had never felt, but would have given her life to experience . . . and the desire would never be satisfied, except by a being of equal greatness.

The human spirit. The heroic in man. The aspiration and the fulfillment, both. Uplifted in its quest--and uplifting by its own essence. Seeking God--and finding itself. Showing that there is no higher reach beyond its own form....