Quotes About Fulfillment

If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives.

Freud's prescription is that only by struggling courageously against what seem like overwhelming odds can man succeed in wringing meaning out of his existence.

Fulfilling God's law to avoid evil is faith. Fulfilling God's law to achieve good is hope. Fulfilling God's will without any extrinsic reason to this is charity.

The identity I tried to establish by obedience to the Law is dead, the life Jesus lived to fulfill the Law is mine.

I want to be able to experience everything. I want to experience being a husband, experience being a father, experience, maybe, hopefully, someday being a grandfather, and all those things. I want that experience. When I die, I want to be exhausted.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

A life of success comes from seeking a life of beauty.

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

There is no happiness outside of ourselves.

Food is a part of our contract with life.

happiness is not a place it is a direction

The secret of life is to find out what one really wants.

Happiness lies only in a divine unrest; and if you are lapped in comfort you stagnate and miss it.

If you don't have children the longing for them will kill you, and if you do, the worrying over them will kill you.

When you first get started, you're the only one with a vision. When you become creative and use your imagination, pretty soon the things you imagined, you can get done. If you got a taste of it, if you got a taste of what I'm talking about, you'd rather do that than eat. You couldn't get enough of it. You'll hunger for it the rest of your life.

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.

The minute you choose to do what you really want to do, it's a different kind of life.

When Dr. Jung said we must be able to look forward in old age to the next day and to look forward to the great adventure that is ahead, he was making life's "imperative to grow" personal. As long as we are alive, we must be able to dream of the future, of a better world or better ways of life. We are also invited by our greater Self to dream new dreams of creativity and fresh ways of expressing ourselves, as many great artists have into their nineties.

What have you done with my life?

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

I love the life I live, I live the life I love.