Quotes About Fulfillment

My goal in life is to be content. By that I don't mean fine or basically satisfied. I don't mean settling. I mean, for last of better terms, feeling like I'm in the right life.

When you talk of not wanting children, it is impossible to avoid sounding defensive, like you're trying to prove the questionable beauty of a selfish and too-tidy existence.

If the desire to have children is just a way to build some noisy tribe of distraction around oneself, then I'd rather be alone.

Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.

I am what I wanted and I want what I am.

If your career choices aren't bringing you satisfaction, you should seriously look at doing something else.

Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look. Days and hours. Weeks and minutes. Years. The hard part, ive discovered, is filling it.

And at last, the lonely young man who belonged to no one finally belonged to someone, forever, and the practical girl who would not settle for less than a love story for the ages found the lifelong romance she had yearned for all her life.

No one's happy here, you know that. But I am content, and maybe that's enough for me.

And while a pretty face is nice to wake up to, and adoring face is so much more rewarding.

When you meet the right person, it's like nothing else—nobody else. No one in your past ever mattered.

There was no such thing as a happy ending, only a happy present.

Good job, said Lonnie, who'd been watching from the balcony. Thanks, said Jay, pleased with how everything had turned out. He smiled when he realized he hadn't even had to steal anything to get what he wanted. He'd done it all by playing by the rules.

Derek and his girlfriend Tori were made for each other, and probably headed for the whole kids and white picket fence life.

I don't have a bucket list because it is my dedication to live every day of my life there. I don't have a bucket list because I'm doing it that day. I don't want to go to bed and say, 'Oh, I wish I had done this.

feels so damn good?

The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy— that's all that matters.

My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.

Dance is one thing to do with your life. But it is not the only thing.

We can let ourselves enjoy life. If we want something and can afford it, buy it. If we want to do something that is legal and harmless, do it. When we're actually involved with doing something that is recreational, don't find ways to feel bad. Let go and enjoy life.

It's okay to succeed, to have good things, and to have loving relationships that work.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. —AGNES REPPLIER, The Treasure Chest

I believe our professional lives can be different and better. We can learn to take care of ourselves and our needs on the job. And if we are not so absorbed in other people and their business, if we believe we are important, we are free to set our own goals and reach our dreams. We are able to capture a vision for our own lives.

Everything comes at its appointed moment. —Joseph R. Sizoo