Quotes About Fulfillment

The vision was a promise, was it not, that the light in me would not be extinguished. The largeness in me would not shrink away. I would yet become visible in this world.

It almost bereaves me to think of unrealized potentials dying inside, the small miscarriages of self. I

Yaltha's words returned to me: You have your destiny, too. They stirred the old longings in me, the terrible need for my own life.

Uncovering this need has been like finding an empty room in the center of my house, one I didn't know was there, one I couldn't pass without feeling its vacuity and wondering how it should be filled. I know I came to Greece in part to try and fill this vacancy in myself. I just didn't think it would have anything to do with Mary.

Your moment will come because you will make it come.

I don't doubt you should give yourself to motherhood. I only question what it is you're meant to mother.

Her silver button) reminding me of the destiny I always believed was inside of me, waiting. How can I explain such a thing? I simply know it - the way I know there's an oak tree inside an acorn. I've been filled with a hunger to grow this seed my whole life... That's why I was born for (abolition)... I've come to know it only this night, but it has always been the tree in the acorn...

Simone de Beauvoir was of the opinion that if, at menopause, a woman gives her "consent" to growing older, she is changed into a "different being," one who is more herself, one who is complete.

In these last minutes, what did he most want to hear—that he'd been seen and heard in this world? That he'd accomplished what he'd set out to do? That he'd loved and been loved?

is new potential in search of ripening and I am ripening in search of new potential.

Why would God plant such deep yearnings in us . . . if they only come to nothing?

And despite all that Jesus had just said, all his prevarication and provisos, the most curious feeling came over me, that I was always meant to arrive at this moment.

In these last minutes, what did he most want to hear-that he'd been seen and heard in this world? That he'd accomplished what he'd set out to do? That he'd loved and been loved?

One night sitting beside the Greek shore, Shirley thinks to herself, I've allowed myself to lead this little life when inside me there is so much more...That's where Shirley Valentine disappeared to. She got lost in all this unused life.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your victory complete.

The skilled can fill their people with energy to confront the emptiness of others, while the incompetent drain their people of energy in face of the fullness of others.

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

Just in case the world ends tomorrow, we might as well enjoy today.

We're all alive. We're all healthy. These are the good times.

Once you're old enough to recognize a hole in yourself it's too late for the hole to be filled.

They are beautiful. They have so much potential. They are capable of so much, every single one of them. We have no idea the things they can do. My job is to make sure their lives aren't wasted. -Anthony Amato

Alla barn längtar att känna sig trygga, skyddade och älskade av sina föräldrar. De behöver också få lov att växa upp och bli oberoende. Paradoxalt nog kan människor bli oberoende vuxna bara om deras behov av beroende blev fyllt när de var barn. Om deras behov av beroende inte fylldes finns det en värkande tomhet inom dem, och den känslan bär de med sig in i vuxenlivet.

Knowledge clinched or confirmed always feels like a coin falling into the right slot, a ball landing in a basket, a peg knocked into its proper hole.