Quotes About Fulfillment

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!

Reducing human beings to the faint after-image of some omnipotent deity, or trying to give human life meaning by postponing real fulfilment to some post-mortem paradise ... can actually threaten to rob real life of its meaningfulness.

Bottom line: If you love yourself, it will all work out.

I don't think you need a man in this world anymore; I think you just need yourself and a little love and a bath.

When I was a boy, I would read those postcards and know exactly why my father was doing what he was doing: he was taking a stab at greatness, that is, if greatness is simply another word for doing something different from what you were already doing--or maybe greatness is the thing we want to have so that other people will want to have us, or maybe greatness is merely the grail for our unhappy, striving selves, the thing we think we need but don't and can't get anyway.

I had what, I wanted, it was with me, in the room, including the room itself. Was it possible that we hear that voice not when we want something else but when we're in danger of losing the things we already have?

he was taking a stab at greatness, that is, if greatness is simply another word for doing something different from what you were already doing — or maybe greatness is the thing we want to have so that other people will want to have us, or maybe greatness is merely the grail for our unhappy, striving selves, the thing we think we need, but don't and can't get anyway.

Love is not wanting the thing you love to ever end. I was in love with A Fan's Notes, just like my dad was. And I was in love with my dad, just like I was in love with A Fan's Notes. I wanted both of them to last forever.

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

Remember this word: to dream. To live is to dream--it is the same thing.

The work of the church is not survival. She exists to fulfill the Great Commission. Her work is making disciples of all nations.

The work of the church is not survival. She exists to fulfill the Great Commission.

We should seek our satisfaction only in fulfilling His will, whether that leads to suffering or comfort.

Do not be satisfied with God's calling or His gifts in your life. Be satisfied with Jesus Christ Himself.

Don't settle for less than you deserve. You are worthy of love, respect, and happiness.

True happiness comes from within, and is not dependent on external circumstances or material possessions.

Is it true that your wishes fulfil themselves? And when they do, are they not bitter to your taste--do you not wish them unfulfilled? Oh, this life, this life! There is comfort in it, they say, and I almost believe--but the brightest place in the house, is the leaning out of the window--at least, for me.

Measure not the work Until the day's out and the labour done.

I have no pleasure in writing myself--none, in the mere act--though all pleasure in the sense of fulfilling a duty, whence, if I have done my real best, judge how heart-breaking a matter must it be to be pronounced a poor creature by critic this and acquaintance the other.

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses Forever in joy!

Somewhere down the road, surely, these words would be made good.

Many of us found it harder to "fill up" during the COVID-19 pandemic; people reported more anxiety and depression, and many people used some of the less healthy forms of reward to fill that void.

There is a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing you are worthy of happiness. So often we block our blessings because we don't, at our core, feel that we're enough. Even if you've accumulated a house full of nice things and the picture of your life fits inside a beautiful frame, if you have experienced trauma but haven't excavated it, the wounded parts of you will affect everything you've managed to build.