Quotes About Fulfillment

The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.

You are in the place that was meant for you. Everything had to be arranged like this to get you here.

She knew in her heart that being together would always be enough.

Don't limit yourself. Think about a career that would give you pleasure or bring you satisfaction.

The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.

Buying is a profound pleasure.

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.

Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.

Somehow, being with Brittany brings something to my life that's missing, something ... right.

Senior year for me is like a retirement party for a sixty-five-year-old. You know you can do more, but everyone expects you to quit.

the three crowns that can usually be hoped for only at the end of a long life. Love, the trust of others, and that kind of glory that accompanies every woman who is happy

She would go to and fro amid all this in a sort of permanent joy and richness, as if Indian poppies, congo canes, hummingbirds, and orange trees were enough to fill a woman's heart with complete satisfaction.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.

Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.

Simonetta Agnello Hornby

We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.

But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull, as ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.

It's all a hold up anyway-- money, body, brains. Do you think anybody's ever satisfied with what he's got a right to?

The sooner you do what you are meant to do, the better."

Your gift is in the place of your obedience.