Quotes About Fulfillment

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Every single one of you has something you're good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That's the opportunity an education can provide.

the big house and the nice suits and the other things that our money culture says you should buy ... betrays a poverty of ambition.

Look. You can't plan out your life. What you have to do is first discover your passion—what you really care about.

if you're thinking: 'Am I succeeding? Am I in the right position? Am I being appreciated?' — then you're going to end up feeling frustrated and stuck. But if you can keep it about the work, you'll always have a path. There's always something to be done.

It was only by hitching my wagon to something larger than myself that I was ultimately able to locate a community and purpose for my life.

She's happy now she's met someone. And I have my work." "Is that enough?" "Sometimes.

If you are living life to its fullest, you will fail.

Look, if you had one shot or one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted in one moment, would you capture it? Or just let it slip …");

I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.

Later, you add to that definition: making money. How much money can you make?

there's a direct link between doing your work and having your wishes come true.

Because, you know, contrary to the song of a great American master, we're generally not born to run. Most of us are born to run a little bit and go back home.

Many of us seem to live our lives looking for happiness. That is not always a bad thing, but it can be if we continually believe that happiness is someplace else and not in the present.

Don't look to a husband or a child or a friend or your family to make you happy. It is not within their capacity to do so.

No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life suggests that the reason so many of us cannot see the red X that marks the spot is because we are standing on it. The treasure we seek requires no lengthy expedition, no expensive equipment, no superior aptitude or special company. All we lack is the willingness to imagine that we already have everything we need. The only thing missing is our consent to be where we are.

don't live a smaller life than you deserve.

I'm not cut out for happy. Busy is going to have to do.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change

man equate their self-esteem with accomplishment

When will you know you have enough, and what will you do then?

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you." — Gospel of Thomas

A man who is a good lover to his wife is his children's best friend.… Child care is play to a woman who is happy. And only a man can make a woman happy. In deepest truth, a father's first duty to his children is to make their mother feel fulfilled as a woman.