Quotes About Fulfillment

What's fulfilling is being happy and being able to help other people. The simple things.

I'm not a showoff. My happiness comes from very basic and simple things.

I'm quite content with who I am and what I do. You might get someone in your local Tesco who might know who you are. But not really. To think you couldn't do those simple things, I'd say I'd probably crave them quite a lot.

Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.

The discontent that lies in the human condition is not satisfied simply by material things.

I am simply happy in Munich.

The greatest lesson I have learned in life is that I am enough simply because I have been given life. Growing up, I constantly found myself trying to please others because I wanted to be included and validated. I expended myself completely.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence.

Here's another test. Of any activity you do, aks yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?

What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead. I was developing symptoms. As soon as I sat down and began, I was okay.

Lat at nigh have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were mean to be? Are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't pain, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what Resistance is.

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us.

Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence.

When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.

Nobody knew I was done. Nobody cared. But I knew. I felt like a dragon I'd been fighting all my life had just dropped dead at my feet and gasped out its last sulfuric breath. Rest in peace, motherfucker.

How many of us have become drunks and drug addicts, developed tumors and neuroses, succumbed to painkillers, gossip, and compulsive cell-phone use, simply because we don't do that thing that our hearts, our inner genius, is calling us to?

If tomorrow morning by some stroke of magic every dazed and benighted soul woke up with the power to take the first step toward pursuing his or her dreams, every shrink in the directory would be out of business.

When we conquer our fears, we discover a boundless, bottomless, inexhaustible well of passion.

From the day I finally finished something, I've never had trouble finishing anything again.

The children who were able to sit for three minutes with a marshmallow on the table in front of them without eating it were rewarded with two marshmallows when the experimenter returned. But that's as crazy as inbox-watching. Krishna said we have the right to our labor, but not to the fruits of our labor. He meant that the piano is its own reward, as is the canvas, the barre, and the movieola. Fuck the marshmallows.

Instead of applying self-knowledge, self-discipline, delayed gratification and hard work, we simply consume a product.

Our greatest fear is fear of success.

We are all meant to shine, as children do.