Quotes About Fulfillment

I love my music so much, and I love what I'm doing so much that that has become my other half-rather than another person.

I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years

I love that synergy between being entertainers and having people respond. There's no greater reward.

I've been making music for thirty-six years and, you know, I'm still just as in love with working on music now as I was thirty-six years ago.

I love the idea that somebody is going to compare me to my character or think that I am like my character when they see me. I feel like that is a role that I am willing to fulfill.

It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.

Let your love propel your beloveds into the world-and into the full experience of who they are. In this will you have truly loved.

If you love what you do, you'll be your best at it compared to anything else you might have chosen as a career. Or at least you will love it more, and you won't lead a depressed day of your life.

Without love of something I don't know if you can have a meaningful life at all.

I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored.

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lovely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Success only breeds a new goal

Woman's sexual problems are, in this sense, by-products of the suppression of her basic need to grow and fulfill her potentialities as a human being, potentialities which the mystique of feminine fulfillment ignores.

If a woman had a problem in the 1950's and 1960's, she knew that something must be wrong with her marriage, or with herself. Other women were satisfied with their lives, she thought. What kind of a woman was she if she did not feel this mysterious fulfillment waxing the kitchen floor? She was so ashamed to admit her dissatisfaction that she never know how many other women shared it.

American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if … the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?

I also discovered that many frantically busy full-time housewives were amazed to find that they could polish off in one hour the housework that used to take them six, or was still undone at dinner time, as soon as they started studying, or working, or had some other serious interest outside the home.

Gradually, without seeing it clearly for quite a while, I came to realize that something is very wrong with the way American women are trying to live their lives today.

At the present historical moment, the best adjusted girl is probably one who's intelligent enough to do well in school, but not so brilliant as to get all As. Capable, but not in an area relatively new to women. Able to stand on her own two feet and to earn a living, but not so good a living so as to compete with men. Capable of doing some job well --In case she doesn't marry or otherwise has to work-- but not so identified with the profession as to need it for her happiness.

It seemed to mean doing something, being somebody yourself, not just existing in and through others.

Women who had once wanted careers were now making careers out of having babies.

The problem is always being the children's mommy, or the minister's wife and never being myself.