Quotes About Fulfillment

When one achieves immortality, one must find purpose beyond the struggle to live

when men perceive the world as being right, we are content. But if we see a hole -a deficiency - we scramble to fill it.

O trabalho que fazemos - Prof disse - Não é viver. Nosso trabalho é matar. Nós deixamos pessoas comuns viverem a própria vida, encontrarem alegria nela, aproveitarem o nascer do sol e as nevadas. Nosso trabalho é permitir a elas que façam isso.

A man doesn't have to like his duty. He just has to do it.

There has to be a balance, Vin," he said. "Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be." He sighed. "But for now," he said, nodding to the side, "we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

La clave de la felicidad no estaba en congelar todo placer momentáneo y aferrarse a ellos, sino en asegurarse de que la vida produjera muchos momentos futuros que esperar con ganas.

My lack of capacity doesn't change the kingdom's needs.

No te preocupes si no das a la gente lo que quieren. Dale quien eres, y que eso sea suficiente.

El fracaso es la medida de una vida bien llevada. Y la única forma de vivir sin fracaso es no servir de nada a nadie.

If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.

I've always wanted to be a mom at 23, 24ish, ever since I was a little girl. I'm right on schedule.

Happy is the people who need no heroes.

The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, "I will love this person (because I need something from them)." Or, "I'll love you if you'll love me back. I'll love you, but only if you will be the way I want." This isn't the fullness of love. Instead there is attachment—there is clinging and fear. True love allows, honors, and appreciates; attachment grasps, demands, needs, and aims to possess.

We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.

The opposite of "never enough" isn't abundance or "more than you could ever imagine." The opposite of scarcity is enough, or what I call Wholeheartedness.

Every semester I share this quote by theologian Howard Thurman with my graduate students. It's always been one of my favorites, but now that I've studied the importance of meaningful work, it's taken on new significance: "Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Connection is why we're here. We are hardwired to connect with others, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you really need to do, in order to have what you want. — Margaret Young

The opposite of scarcity is not abundance; the opposite of scarcity is simply enough.

If the opposite of scarcity is enough, then practicing gratitude is how we acknowledge that there's enough and that we're enough.

Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or "too bad" if we don't use the gifts that we've been given; we pay for it with our emotional and physical well-being.

People may call what happens at midlife "a crisis," but it's not. It's an unraveling—a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you're "supposed" to live.

What if we're normal and quiet and happy? Does that count? I guess the answer to this is only yes if it counts to us. If what matters to us is what we're concerned about, then play and rest is important. If what matters to us is what other people think or say or value, then it's back to exhaustion and producing for self-worth.

we're a nation hungry for more joy: Because we're starving from a lack of gratitude.