Quotes About Fulfillment

We all have a central fiction about ourselves, a favored delusion about talent or untapped potential. Most of us hang on to it as if it were a lifesaver, even though the obsession with it is often the very thing that drags us down and prevents us from fulfilling some lesser but more obtainable goal.

Humans are born, they live, then they die, this is the order that the gods have decreed. But until the end comes, enjoy your life, spend it in happiness, not despair. Savor your food, make each of your days a delight, bathe and anoint yourself, wear bright clothes that are sparkling clean, let music and dancing fill your house, love the child who holds you by the hand, and give your wife pleasure in your embrace. That is the best way for a man to live.

Here is a poem for you: The candy peddler is ringing his bell, and the child cries to its mother. Money becomes candy and candy becomes money. Money goes into the peddler's pocket, and candy goes into the child's mouth and is sweet.

We will never be truly healthy, satisfied, or fulfilled if we live apart and alienated from the environment from which we evolved.

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.

If you carefully consider what you wanted to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

Happiness - in part at least - the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice waht we want for what we want eventually

what we believe about ourselves and our purpose has a powerful impact on how we live, how we love, and what we learn.

Because their identity and sense of self-worth are wrapped up in their work, their security is vulnerable to anything that happens to prevent them from continuing in it.

Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!

it is that a meaningful life is not a matter of speed or efficiency. It's much more a matter of what you do and why you do it, than how fast you get it done.

Urgency addiction is a self-destructive behavior that temporarily fills the void created by unmet needs. And instead of meeting these needs, the tools and approaches of time management often feed the addiction. They keep us focused on daily prioritization of the urgent.

What you alone can contribute, no one else can contribute. Viktor Frankl said we don't invent our mission; we detect it. It's within us waiting to be realized.

If you knew you couldn't fail, what would you give your life to? If you knew you didn't have to work for a living, what would you give your life to?

It is the habit that enables people to stay fit for today's world in four critical areas—physical, social-emotional, mental, and spiritual. You will recognize those four areas as rooted in the four basic needs that allow young people—all people—to feel greater peace of mind.

People often find themselves achieving victories that are empty, successes that have come at the expense of things they suddenly realize were far more valuable to them.

life is a mission and not a career

How Many People on Their Deathbed Wish They'd Spent More Time at the Office?

your freedom to choose your response lies the power to achieve growth and happiness.

The thing I learned is that you don't invent your mission, you detect it. You uncover it, as it were.

Satisfied needs do not motivate.

trying to prioritize activities before you even know how they relate to your sense of personal mission and how they fit into the balance of your life is not effective.

How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office—or watching TV? The answer is, No one.

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas of life.