Quotes About Fulfillment

So each day we are pulled to refill our reward bucket.

Every day we "fill our reward bucket" with various sources of reward—and not every day is the same (see Figure 4). Some days will be rich with friends and family; other days you may fill your "reward bucket" by volunteering at a local food kitchen. And some days, we are left empty, unfulfilled.

There is a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing you are worthy of happiness.

Satisfaction buries desires

Achor's studies emphasize that we have been culturally programmed to believe that if we reach our goals (when we get into Harvard, lose twenty pounds, get a high-paying job, etc.), then we'll be happy. However, this formula for happiness is actually inverted: happiness fuels success, not the other way around.

However, as pursuit of happiness morphed into pursuit of material, all of the promises became compromised. So what went wrong? How did this happen?

Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image

Don't neglect life by worrying about Death. - I don't know what is the meaning of death, but I am not afraid to die - and I go on, non-stop, going forward [with life]. Even though, I, Bruce Lee, may die some day without fulfilling all of my ambitions, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do and what I've done, I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.

Goals give life substance. - To strive actively to achieve some goal gives your life meaning and substance.

It doesn't matter you were born as Legend But what does matter is Legendary End. Think About It.

Self-actualization is the important thing. And my personal message to people is that I hope they will go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization. I hope that they will search within themselves for honest self-expression. — Bruce Lee

My Definite Chief Aim I, Bruce Lee, will be the first highest paid Oriental super star in the United States. In return, I will give the most exciting performances and render the best of quality in the capacity of an actor. Starting 1970 I will achieve world fame and from then onward till the end of 1980 I will have in my possession $10,000,000. I will live the way I please and achieve inner harmony and happiness.

Even though I, Bruce Lee, may die someday without fulfilling all of my ambitions, I feel no sorrow. I did what I wanted to do. What I've done, I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

our work - is to do the part assigned to us in order to inherit the glory and honor and dignity of which I speak.

As men die temporally for want of temporal bread, so they die spiritually for want of spiritual food.

More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

We all have some emptiness in our lives, an emptiness that some fill with art, some with God, some with learning. I have always filled the emptiness with drugs. Because

Gavin did not enjoy his hard work. The optimistic startup guys sending in these crazy proposals were guys who enjoyed their work. Gavin had the solid, old-fashioned idea that work should be painful, so that people would pay you for doing it. If the "work" was fulfilling, then work was a form of entertainment. The workers should be paying people for being entertained.»

Getting what you want is a serious matter. It is far more transformative than frustration.

Time had a way of making passion into work. He had what he wanted. He had his dream. He had to live it and breathe it and do its budget.