Quotes About Fulfillment

Do what is meaningful, not what is expedient.

However, I do not believe you should pursue happiness.

Dedica tus esfuerzos a hacer cosas con significado, no aquello que más te convenga.

How much leisure, enjoyment, and reward do you require, so that you feel like more than a beast of burden?

That's the other, far more optimistic lesson of Price's law and the Pareto distribution: those who start to have will probably get more.

Si no te revelas a los demás, no te puedes revelar a ti mismo. Esto no solo significa que estás suprimiendo a quien eres, aunque eso también. Significa que todas las cosas que podrías llegar a ser nunca podrán ser desencadenadas por la necesidad.

those who avoid their destiny by standing back when asked to step forward also deprive everyone else of the advantages that may have come their way had the person who took the easy way instead determined to be all they could be.

Quizá la felicidad se encuentra en el viaje de subida y no en el efímero sentimiento de satisfacción que aguarda en la próxima cumbre. Una gran parte de la felicidad está compuesta de esperanza, por muy profundo que fuera el submundo en el que dicha esperanza se f

But if it's uncertain that our ideals are attainable, why do we bother reaching in the first place? Because if you don't reach for them, it is certain you will never feel that your life has meaning.

Meaning gratifies all impulses, now and forever.

What if it was the case that the world revealed whatever goodness it contains in precise proportion to your desire for the best?

What's the difference between being happy and being content?", "What things get better as you age?" and "What makes life more meaningful?

An aim defines progress and makes such progress exciting. An aim reduces anxiety, because if you have no aim everything can mean anything or nothing, and neither of those two options makes for a tranquil spirit.

Una gran parte de las emociones positivas que sentimos está relacionada con objetivos. Técnicamente hablando, no somos felices si no nos vemos progresar, y la mera idea de progreso implica un valor.

What might serve as a more sophisticated alternative to happiness? Imagine it is living in accordance with the sense of responsibility, because that sets things right in the future.

Un objetivo reduce la ansiedad porque, si no tienes ninguno, todo puede significar cualquier cosa o nada en absoluto y ninguna de estas dos opciones permite a un espíritu estar tranquilo. Así

What is a truly reliable source of positive emotion?" The answer is that people experience positive emotion in relationship to the pursuit of a valuable goal.

we don't experience any positive emotion unless we have an aim, and we can see ourselves progressing toward that aim

No purpose? Then, no positive emotion, as most of what drives us forward with hope intact is the experience of approaching something we deeply need and want. And worse, when we are without purpose: chronic, overwhelming anxiety, as focused purpose constrains what is otherwise likely to be the intolerable chaos of unexploited possibility and too much choice.

The beneficence of the world manifests itself to those who live properly. That's better than bread. That's better than the money that will buy bread. Thus Christ, the symbolically perfect individual, overcomes the first temptation.

To have meaning in your life is better than to have what you want, because you may neither know what you want, nor what you truly need.

An idea begins to take shape: "I am going to live my life properly. I am going to aim at the good. I am going to aim at the highest good I can possible manage.

Perhaps you should also be positioning yourself for a lateral move—into another job, for example, noting as you may, "This occupation is deadening my soul, and that is truly not for me.

The sense of meaning is an indicator that you are on that path.