Quotes About Fulfillment

People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live up to every inch of this story.' Sometimes you realize the story isn't fulfilling you and in fact you're not living the life that you're given.

If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.

Even now - I'm 35 - I've been in a relationship for 15 years with a guy, and we have two full incomes and no kids, and it's hilarious. We're children, perpetually, because of this rock and roll thing. But it's still so fulfilling.

If four or five days go by, and I haven't written anything, I feel incomplete.

I've thought about the idea of, 'Can happiness and creativity co-exist?' So much of what I've done, I think, has been based on being dissatisfied or incomplete or lonely. The answer is, 'There isn't an answer, necessarily.'

At the beginning, when I did 'Yeh Saali Hai Zindagi,' I got a lot of love, which is ever increasing.

Not only are we working less, we're enjoying ourselves more. As we're working toward this world of abundance, we're able to increasingly enjoy leisure time.

This girl wanted me to experience something I'd never experienced. She tried three times to get me high. Finally it worked, and I had the most incredible sex I'd ever had.

It's incredible how many emotions you feel when crossing the finish line and seeing that you are No. 1.

Birdie is amazing and such an incredible child and I'm having such a great time being a mom but I still want to have a career and I still look forward to auditions and parts, and when I don't get them I'm disappointed.

Every day it seems like something happens to assure me I'm in the right place, and that doing anything else would be wrong. I feel so incredibly blessed.

I've written a whole body of work that I'm incredibly proud of.

I feel incredibly lucky at this moment in my career to get paid to do basically exactly what I always wanted to do. I appreciate that in general. But you know, like any job, a job is a job, and there are days that are going to be boring, or you have a boss you don't like, or people you work with.

I can disappear into things very easily. But with acting, you have to be in the moment, and it gives me this incredibly fulfilling emotion: being really present.

I was gifted with a life that was full of adventure. I've always believed, if you're gifted, that it's incumbent not to think about giving something back.

I wanted to do well for me and for Maura. It is bigger than me. I have a responsibility. It's incumbent upon me to do Maura the best I can.

I've had a very full life, and I've enjoyed it very much. I've learned a great deal and feel indebted to all the people who have worked so hard.

The great thing about letting people be true to themselves is they often do very good things indeed.

Every American must be guaranteed dignity and independence in their retirement.

Letzten Endes ist das schönste Alter dasjenige, in dem man weiss, an welchen Träumen man am stärksten hängt, und in dem noch einige davon verwirklichen kann.

Je n'ai jamais quitté mon travail pour me "consacrer" à ma famille. La formule déjà me faisait horreur: dans consacrer je voyais sacrifice. Et il y avait con !

Les (dieux) monothéistes, fieffés machos, n'ont jamais rien compris au bonheur

Projects are not goals in themselves. Projects are how goals are achieved. People don't build skyscrapers, hold conferences, develop products, or write books for their own sakes. They do these things in order to accomplish other things.

The sole function of philosophy is to lead us to happiness by way of the shortest possible route.