Quotes About Fulfillment

I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.

No person writes to win awards.

No amount of money can replace the kind of happiness and satisfaction I derive out of writing.

Once I started writing at 'The Onion' I was like, oh this is it, this is my dream job, I've achieved my dream job.

I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.

Sometimes I've called writing a disease. If so, I'm glad that it caught me.

The day the producers aren't minting money, or the fans are done with me and, most of all, I as a person get bored of acting, I will stop and pursue my other interests. There is a lot to do: painting, writing, direction.

Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.

Writing and drawing comics for the sheer joy of it - that's true bliss.

Building upon the world we created with 'Avatar' has been a rare and incredibly rewarding experience. In writing the new films, I've come to realize that 'Avatar's world, story and characters have become even richer than I anticipated, and it became apparent that two films would not be enough to capture everything I wanted to put on screen.

I always want to be doing something - going somewhere, doing a project, teaching a class, writing an article. I try to use up my day. You have a limited time on this planet - try to use as much of it as you can for productive purposes.

Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling verbally communal with other people. It's out there and I feel so much better about it.

It's my belief that our lives are stolen from us. Ornamented with pinnate leaves and colored frills, we exist only as a consolation for others. I don't feel fulfilled. Indeed, some days I scarcely feel at all.

Don't wish," said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only…

He was hungry without yet knowing that hunger could be slaked by food; he was lonely without yet knowing that loneliness could be slaked, too.

I'm not looking for happiness. But I'm not looking for an ending either. pg. 544

I'd give a lot to achieve fun," Elphaba said. "The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion-

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

S]tudies show that one of the best ways to lift your mood is to engineer an easy success, such as tackling a long-delayed chore.

I am living my real life, this is it. Now is now, and if I waited to be happier, waited to have fun, waited to do the things that I know I ought to do, I might never get the chance.