Quotes About Fulfillment

People who fit don't seek. The seekers are those that don't fit.

Without awareness, every one of us is at risk of living trapped, an unfulfilled trace of our Self, by our own sense of who we are

Your greatest self has been waiting your whole life

The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.

You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.

If you don't have love, you don't have much at all.

Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis.

This is the purpose of life, is it not? To create life is the greatest act a living creature can commit.

The idea behind K, as Johnson put it, was to strike "a good balance between running a business and helping people get their thing done." As he wrote in one of K's catalogs, "There are many different ways to measure success besides with a calculator.

The band had accomplished what we set out to do and I felt really good about what we'd done, so it wasn't a sense of incompletion or that sort of gnawing to it. I thought, 'Hey, we did pretty good.

It doesn't necessarily have to be about getting anywhere, but about getting through the process of fulfilling your own possibilities.

It meant nothing to us if we were popular or not, or if we sold either a million or no records

Musicians here weren't afraid to go out and work really hard for satisfaction more than for success. That's what it came down to—you were working for some other notion of glory than financial.

Why are we in a band again?' We just were driven to do it for some reason, I don't know why. Just because we had nothing better to do.

Try to find a little more entertainment from your own resources.' As opposed to going out and buying it.

Perhaps Danish happiness is not really happiness at all, but something much more valuable and durable: contentedness, being satisfied with your lot, low-level needs being met, higher expectations being kept in check.

Proper, deep, enduring joy usually requires a remarkable facility for denial, something which the Danes have in spades.

Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.

A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.

The lucky ones are the people like your husband there. The ones who find work that means something to them. That they can really put their heart into, however foolish it might look to other people.

Maybe I'm tired," he said. "Maybe I'm tired of picking up life in bits and fistfuls and little drawstring bags. When you get to be as old as I am, there's an appeal in the idea of seeing some business through from start to finish.

It reassured me that, if nothing else in life, at least I'd fulfilled my earliest ambition simply to wander far afield, in spirit if not in space, from the place of my birth.

You hope to spend your life doing what you love and need and have been fitted by nature or God or your protein-package to do: write, draw, sing, tell stories. But you have to eat.