Quotes About Fulfillment

Each moment of our life, we either invoke or destroy our dreams. We call upon it to become a fact, or we cancel our previous instructions.

Remember, it's Ok to get what you want from life.

you have the right to be satisfied with what you have and with what you are right now.

He was a simple, animal hunger, and he didn't care what he was eating or how it tasted . It was like taking aspirin to make a headache go away. You don't enjoy the aspirin

I feel guilty because I think people should do something they really like to do in life. I should do something else, but there is nothing I can do really well. I'm established and make a steady living, so it becomes pretty easy. It's not very fulfilling . . . but I'm lazy, I admit it. It's an easier thing to do.

Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread.

I can't imagine a job where you go home and maybe go by a year later and you don't know what you've done. My work, I can see what I did the first day I started. All my work is set right out there in the open and I can look at it as I go by. It's something I can see the rest of my life.

Nora Watson may have said it most succinctly. "I think most of us are looking for a calling, not a job. Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.

Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.

I think most of us are looking for a calling, not a job. Most of us, like the assembly-line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.

Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body." – George Carlin, Author, Actor and Comedian

Satisfaction comes from giving up wishing I was somewhere else or doing something else.

Perhaps each of us has a starved place, and each of us knows deep down what we need to fill that place. To find the courage to trust and honor the search, to follow the voice that tells us what we need to do, even when it doesn't seem to make sense, is a worthy pursuit.

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

It's pitiful to have a life in which junk food is awarded the same high status as sex.

the reward for getting through life is getting life itself.

We want. When we stop wanting, we feel dead and want to want more. (p.232)

There were disappointments. Things you couldn't know you had wanted, or even things you were quite certain you hadn't wanted, but still, as you discovered, missed some aspect of.

When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

It's your time to live, don't mess it up.

Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.

If you have your why? in life, you can get along with almost any how? People don't strive for happiness, only the English do.