Quotes About Fulfillment

Quisiera hoy ser feliz de buena gana

How will you know when you reach a higher level of prayer? One way is to see an increase in concrete, measurable answers to your prayers.

But maybe, just maybe, I was who and where and what I needed to be. Maybe all the prices that had been paid were nothing more than part of high cost of living.

When you set sail for Ithaca, wish for the road to be long, full of adventures, full of knowledge.

She believed in the principle of enoughness. from About Alice

Someone who managed to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and still delighting in the many things there are to take pleasure in.

How is it that disappointment arrives as soon as what you have desired for so long steps over the threshold? It's like finding the end of your wedding train dragging behind in the mud.

I never expected to be happy, to have a sense of belonging somewhere. I didn't grow up with a sense that this was possible or even desirable. I'm quite sure my parents didn't either, so I come by this honestly.

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

It's always the people who don't want things who get them.

I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you don't quit a career.

You don't want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster.

It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the better. Whereas women were the complete opposite. She had never heard a woman say she was working so she could retire to a desert island or to live on a boat. It was probably, she thought, because most women didn't think they deserved to do nothing.

Lots of famous people are late bloomers. My father says it's an advantage to be a late bloomer. Because when good things start happening, you're ready for it.

I've recently discovered that cooking is a great way to distract yourself from your problems while providing a sense of accomplishment. You feel like you're doing something useful even though a few hours later you eat all the evidence.

there are a lot of women writers who never get married and don't have kids. I am married, but I didn't marry until I was 43. I knew when I was young that if I had to make a choice between being married and being a writer, I would have chosen to be a writer. I think it's a career where you have to put the career first. I don't have kids but - and luckily everyone isn't like this — I think if you have that passion, in a way, your career is your child.

the bridge from wanting a relationship, with all that entails, to having to settle for its lesser cousin: companionship

I finally figured out that it's not possible to have a real partner in life because relationships are inherently sexist," she said. "You have to be the mommy and the caretaker and when they want to have sex, you have to want to have sex and at a certain point a part of me would say, 'Why? Why am I

What is it you want from me Dad? You want me to be the big basketball star you never were?-Scott

And now it is as we wanted it.

We make our purpose.

Si uno está muerto, no puede hacer nada para ser feliz.

She found what she had been searching for.

He is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.