Quotes About Fulfillment

Whoever we are here, we might be princesses somewhere else. Or writers. Or scientists. Or presidents. Or whatever the hell we want to be that everyone else says we can't.

Ljubav se stalno menja zato što se mi stalno menjamo. Stoga romanti?na ljubav, sama po sebi, donosi nestabilnost. ?ini nas nezadovoljnim onim što imamo time što nas uvek usmerava ka ne?emu što ne posedujemo u potpunosti, ili posedujemo u nedovoljnoj meri, ili pak u ?ije smo posedovanje suviše sigurni.

How come when I'm with you, life seems to whiz

When we choose to love the work we do, we can catch our limit of happiness, meaning, and fulfillment every day.

We spent a lot of time talking about this choice, and we realized that as long as we are going to be at work, we might as well have the best day we can have.

There is a certain kind of action that leads to freedom and fulfillment," Krishna begins. "A certain kind of action that is always aligned with our true nature." This is the action that is motivated by dharma. This is the action taken in the service of our sacred calling, our duty, our vocation. In dharma, it is possible to take passionate action without creating suffering. It is possible to find authentic fulfillment of all human possibilities.

If you bring forth what is within you it will save you. Yes. But this saving is not just for you. It is for the common good. If you bring forth what is within you, it will save the world. It will rescue the times. It will save the whole people. Likewise: If you do not bring forth what is within you it will destroy you. But not just you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, it will destroy the whole people.

We work first because we have to work. Then because we want to work. Then because we love to work. Then the work simply does us. Difficult at the beginning. Inevitable at the end.

My two containers, my two soul friends, had come together. I could barely contain my joy. Life was intertwining in wonderful ways.

self-dedication is too small a work. It inevitably becomes a prison.

Each of us must find the form that allows this naming, this working through, and, finally, this mastery. We may find these forms in sports, in the arts, in finance, in academia, in relationship building, in child-rearing—or, indeed, in stamp collecting. But find them we must.

The great twentieth-century monk Thomas Merton encountered precisely the same spiritual exhaustion partway through his life. The chief source of this exhaustion, he writes, "is the selfish anxiety to get the most out of everything, to be a sparkling

She was a woman who had retained the simplicity of earlier life even as she had surpassed its limitations.

Marion's view allowed her experience with cancer to be full of meaning, to be replete with possibility, and it enabled Death to bring her more deeply into Life. She got the initiation.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

Most women are more into real estate than sex. They want to own you.

The obsession was gone. We liked each other, even loved each other. And our sex was still good, but the hunger was gone. Either it just wore out or we wore each other out. A passion like that pushes everything else out of its path. You can't be married and have jobs and children and work and write and have something like an emotional bubonic plague.

All I wanted was a job like a book so good I'd be finishing it for the rest of my life.

In every book I ever wrote the point was to do as much as you could after coming to terms with your limitations.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

The essence of the hero's journey is: How do you live a meaningful life? What is the deepest life you are called to? How can you respond to that call?

That night, though, Dick wakes up crying, but happy too, the bitter aftertaste of a happy ending in his mouth.

You do have choices about how you spend your time. Balancing what you need to do with what you want to do can lead to happiness and success.