Quotes About Fulfillment

Doing my art came out of something very solitary and something that I had no intention of showing anybody, and yet once people saw pieces in my house, it became really clear that there was a great demand for my art.

I've spent so much of my life in what can be quite solitary professions, particularly when you're fronting television programmes. I've been all over the world doing that on my own, to be able to enjoy that in the company of someone you adore makes it five times as good.

I realised that rather than looking for someone else to be an 'other half' to make me whole, that I need to be whole myself. That's what solitude taught me - that I am enough.

I'd rather have a small part in a big film or good story than do a solo film just for the sake of it.

I did my solo thing for a while and got that out of my system.

Nobody told Don Henley or me that we were going to make it as solo artists, but I can speak for Don when I say that we are both really happy now that the band is not together.

I always wanted to solo at the church and they didn't ever give it to me. But eventually they did and I froze. But then I killed it.

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.

I mean, being a solo artist is very different than being a member of a band. It's absolutely different. The whole situation is very different - situations where you can't really compare, it's so very different. But I found happiness.

The only solution to the education system is to find yourself.

I wrote 'Monster' and thought that it would solve a lot of my problems, that I'd have money in the bank, but I felt no different. I was still searching for something.

Money doesn't solve anything.

The best organizations are filled with people who have a wealth of choices as to what work they choose to do. We need to give them every reason possible to solve the world's problems.

I didn't publish my book until I was 37. So the ability to pay my bills, pay my rent, make a life for myself, and become a working writer was a puzzle that took me a while to solve.

I always had this impression that money bought you happiness and money solved everything, and it's the biggest lie I have ever been told.

By solving housing and childcare problems, we will achieve a society where each person can properly invest in their development and realize their full potential.

If you're going to commit to that, you're going to have to find some way to make it bearable and enjoyable.

You only get one shot at life, one life to live, make the most out of it put as many smiles as you can on people's faces, help as many people as you can, get you some paper. Live life, you and your folks.

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.

I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.

Some people just get what they want in the world.

Some people would say I've made it now.

With some things, it's not that I like doing them; it's more that I like having done them. I like to look back and see that I've made a nice thing.