Quotes About Fulfillment

In joy there is neither desire nor ambition. Ambition promises joy somewhere in the future. It creates a mirage of joy and leaves frustration in your hands.

If we think we have all those qualities in us, then they will remain in us. Remember, a bud has all that it needs to become a flower, and so it is with you. You have everything that is needed for you to blossom. It will not be lost.

Free from feverishness or desires in the mind, united with your Being, centered, when you act without expecting something from it, without wanting to grab or take anything, your action becomes perfect and free from blemishes.

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their 'luck' arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.

After all, if no one is happy who does not have what he wants and if the skeptics are always seeking the truth, but do not find it, they cannot be happy. Furthermore, the skeptics claim that their wise man is happy, and yet he cannot be happy since he does not have what he wants.

But how does it happen, if their books and rituals are true, and Felicity is a goddess, that she herself is not appointed as the only one to be worshipped, since she could confer all things, and all at once make men happy? For who wishes anything for any other reason than that he may become happy?

What can suffice the man whom virtue and felicity do not suffice? For surely virtue comprehends all things we need do, felicity all things we need wish for.

Our love, too, proceeding from ourselves and returning to us, would suffice to make our life blessed, and would stand in need of no extraneous enjoyment.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.

Thou hast made us for Thyself, and the heart never resteth till it findeth rest in Thee.

God loves his creatures, and he loves each one the more, the more it shares his own goodness, which is the first and primary object of his love. Therefore he wants the desires of his rational creatures to be fulfilled because they share most perfectly of all creatures the goodness of god. And his will is an accomplisher of things because he is the cause of things by his will. So it belongs to the divine goodness to fulfill the desires of rational creatures which are put to him in prayer.

Imagine who you could be, what you could accomplish-if only you could get out of your own way.

Whether or not we feel proud of the way we have lived will hinge mainly on our marriage and our parenting.

You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void.

We should give meaning to life, not wait for life to give us meaning.

She was returning home to be the wife of, mother of, First Lady of, but what did that really mean?

A whole life can go by being too busy and waiting for "when." Living in the future means barely existing in the present. If you can't enjoy things now, when will you magically develop the tools to enjoy things in the future?

I can't imagine myself at that age with all my troubles behind me and nothing left but pottering in the garden till the end.

What you get by reaching your goals is not nearly as important as what you become by reaching them. —Zig Ziglar

Don't marry a rich man. Marry a good man. He will spend his life trying to keep you happy. No rich man can buy that!

Life doesn't get much better than this.

the desire for perfection is that desire which always makes every pleasure appear incomplete, for there is no joy or pleasure so great in this life that it can quench the thirst in our soul.

to Alexander the Great, who wept when there were no more worlds to conquer...