Quotes About Fulfillment

I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.

I really wanted to buy a Range Rover. It was a big dream, and the day I bought it, I was very happy, but by evening, I was immune to it. That's when I realized that excitement, if it's happiness, is not in reaching the goal but in the process. Thus process trumps over realization.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

I wanted to be someone who wanted to produce music, and here I am, and I'm happy about it.

Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.

I always wanted to be a singer, it's what I wanted to do since I was little. I'm doing it now and I couldn't be happier.

I look at other people's lives, and some people feel like they're too old to play with toys. But I still go through the toy section at the store, 'cause there were toys that I wanted when I was little that I couldn't have. So I still get them.

Finding ballet gave me passion for the first time in my life. I was always very shy and just wanted to fit in; I never daydreamed about what I wanted to be when I grew up. But dancing gave me a connection to my personality that made me grow.

I always wanted to show different sides of me, and I'm very happy to have done so.

All I've ever wanted is a nice truck, and that's what I got.

If I die tomorrow, will I have gotten everything in the world I've ever wanted? No. But I will have gotten everything that's made me happiest.

I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among the Top 20.

I wanted to be a singer, but once I started acting, I felt so comfortable. Now, all I want to do is act.

Considering all that's happened in my life, I feel like I'm a pretty levelheaded person that has remained happy and not let my shortcomings overtake the better part of me. I'm fulfilling the things I wanted to fulfill, and I'm still sane.

Nothing in life prepared me for the way I felt about being a mother. Until then, I sort of felt like a blank sheet of paper. I was always trying to second-guess myself, to be what others wanted me to be.

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.

So, you know, Nathaniel was my first child, born when I was 40, so, uh... And then in due course, he wanted a brother, and then I thought, 'Oh, that'll be bloody lucky!' So, we ended up adopting a beautiful boy who was then five years old, from Ethiopia.

I would say I've done everything I wanted to.

I wanted to be an actor, but only because I wanted to be everything, and that was the only way I could be a marine biologist as well.

I was thinking I would love to make something that is a successful film that everybody sees, but I wasn't thinking about the actual dollar amount. I just wanted to make a great film that people responded to. That's always a good ambition because you'll never totally hit it.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

My dream was bigger than anything else. My fight and me wanting to fulfill what I wanted to be in life. That was enough to keep me strong enough to endure anything.

Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.