Quotes About Fulfillment

When Obligers have the external accountability they need to meet their inner expectations, they don't experience any sense of limitation or self-frustration—and of course many environments, such as the workplace, tend to supply lots of accountability. When what others expect from Obligers is what they expect from themselves, they have the life they want.

Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness.

Some people love finishing, and some people love opening—both literally and figuratively. Finishers love the feeling of bringing a project to completion, and they're determined to use the last drop in the shampoo bottle; Openers thrill to the excitement of launching a new project, and find pleasure in opening a fresh tube of toothpaste.

One of the best ways to make myself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy myself.

Most Upholders are good at taking care of themselves and enjoying themselves.

The brain is stimulated by surprise, and successfully dealing with an unexpected situation gives a powerful sense of satisfaction. If you do new things—visit a museum for the first time, learn a new game, travel to a new place, meet new people—you're more apt to feel happy

know how happy I am when one of them is very happy. How happy I was to

This self-knowledge is crucial because we can build a happy life only on the foundation of our own nature, our own interests, and our own values.

In particular, I'd realized that although I possessed all the elements of a happy life, too often I took my circumstances for granted and allowed myself to become overly vexed by petty annoyances or fleeting worries. I'd wanted to appreciate my life more, and to live up to it better.

William Butler Yeats. "Happiness," wrote Yeats, "is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.

course it's not enough to sit around wanting to be happy; you must make the effort to take steps toward happiness by acting with more love, finding work you enjoy

But perhaps the most acute sense of happiness from writing was the happiness of expressing a very complicated idea - the kind of idea that takes hundreds of pages to capture.

Drawing on intrinsic motivation makes us far more likely to stick to a behavior, and to find it satisfying.

Everyone's happiness project is unique.

would seek happiness in the ways that seemed most natural to me.

How can I deprive myself of something without feeling deprived? When it comes to habits, feeling deprived is a pernicious state. When we feel deprived, we feel entitled to compensate ourselves—often, in ways that undermine our good habits.

I did, however, vow to stop reading books that I didn't enjoy. I used to pride myself on finishing every book I started—no longer.

I realized that one way to deprive myself without creating a feeling of deprivation is to deprive myself totally.

by acting with more love, finding work you

If you're doing something that you don't enjoy and you don't have the gratification of success, failure is particularly painful. But doing what you love is itself the reward.

And a sense of purpose is very important to happiness. But

When we give more to ourselves, we can ask more from ourselves.

striving after goals—that is, growth—that brings happiness.

It takes work to be happier, but it's gratifying work.