Quotes About Fulfillment

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?

Desire is story itself.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it . I would have made a terrible mother.

life is to be lived.if you have to support yourself,you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.And you don't do that by sitting around.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased".

prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.

The place you are going towards doesn't exist yet, you must build it when you come to the right spot.

And all the best words together couldn't hold the happiness.

As women, we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers, and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.

Enough. What does "enough" feel like? When happiness and contentment happen, how do you know?

For the first time, really, since beginning her PhD program, Connie felt secure. Validated.

Anyone who reads Thoreau might find his sage advice a beacon for living a fulfilling life. The key is to leave your life open to opportunities, ideas and change—offered by education, travel, reading books and joining clubs. When you do, you will meet others who love to explore their spirits, minds and potential talents. Once you mingle with those people, their ideas cascade onto and into you.

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

You don't have to want things outside you to fill up the gaps inside you. You don't leave bits of you hanging around on objects in shop-windows, in catalogues or on advertising hoardings. Wherever you go you take your whole self with you, you don't leave bits lying around to get stamped on, you're all of a piece

It isn't the Devil in humanity that makes man a lonely creature, it's his Godlikeness. It's the fullness of the Good that can't get out or can't find its proper 'other place' that makes for loneliness.

Dying could be a bit of a problem, but not if you had really lived. Dying needed a certain amount of preparation and the only preparation for dying was real living

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence.