Quotes About Fulfillment

Happy people live in the present; those with meaningful lives have a narrative about their past and a plan for the future. Those with happy but meaningless lives are takers and beneficiaries; those with meaningful but unhappy lives are givers and benefactors.

Unlike ascetic and puritanical regimes, humanistic ethics does not second-guess the intrinsic worth of people seeking comfort, pleasure, and fulfillment—if people didn't seek them, there would be no people.

We can make choices that leave us unhappy in the short term but fulfilled over the course of a life, such as raising a child, writing a book, or fighting for a worthy cause.

meaning is about expressing rather than satisfying the self: it is enhanced by activities that define the person and build a reputation.

And contrary to an earlier belief, winning the lottery does, over the long term, make people happier.

the theory of the hedonic treadmill

Parents get meaning from their children, but not necessarily happiness.

Meat tastes good, and eating it makes people happy.

Why should the laws of nature have allowed exactly one physically possible way of satisfying a human desire, no more and no less?

I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about.

The more one forgives himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.

While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.

Going through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite -- everything seems so flat and tasteless.

When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.

Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.

I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?

I love doing motion pictures and expect to be as busy as I want to be in them.

By pursuing the things you love, all the other things in life will fall into order.

To achieve happiness I advocate four major principles, the principles of love, wisdom, self-reflection, and progress.

Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.

What is the gospel according to Jesus? Simply this: that the love we all long for in our innermost heart is already present, beyond longing.

Never give up searching for the job that you're passionate about.