Quotes About Fulfillment

God, he felt good. It was funny—all of a sudden, he was the guy he usually hated reading about in books. The happiest guy alive.

The only failure is not knowing how to be happy.---My Story

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

Don't make your career your life. Let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity, you are so much more valuable than that.

Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.

A generation ago, fun wasn't a deciding factor when we talked about career choices. Jobs aren't supposed to be fun. They're supposed to bring home the bacon. Fun is what you do on your off days. Fun happens in the evenings and weekends. But if your job isn't fun, as we've come to realize, you don't do a fantastic job at it.

Realizing your potential is gone—that's pretty bad. But the worst thing is being okay with that.

The blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.

We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity...a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant...A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.

True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth and choice. —BEN JONSON

a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing, But the man who lves that span, he is something… A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life. It is hard work to fill one's life with meaning.

A person has to have a reason for living, and the best reason is another person. Together they can make a plan for their lives.

Many people feel they are in possession of a great gift when they are young. But one does not always give in to a gift. One does with a life what is precious not only to one's own self but to one's own people.

I like his optimism,' I said. 'I like the way when he and some other rabbis saw a jackal in the ruins of Jerusalem, and the others began to cry, he laughed and said that just as the prophecy of the destruction of the temple was fulfilled, so the prophecy of the rebuilding would also be fulfilled. I like that.

I wish, I said. I could save orgasms in a jar for when I need them, because I think I have a few extra.

Apparently, once you got used to regular and spectacular sex, your body had a mind of its own (so to speak) when it was deprived of that recreation; to say nothing of missing the hugging and cuddling part.

we had sex in every position i could imagine, and some i couldn't. we had sex in every room in my house, and we had sex outdoors. you told me it was the best you'd ever had.

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.

It's truly amazing what a good screw can do for your outlook, I thought.

I had a neat and tidy life in a messy world, and if sometimes I suspected I was trying to fulfill the stereotype of a small-town librarian, well, I had yearnings to play other roles, too.

Humans who are born with the essential spark are born to experience or perform something wonderful, something amazing.

Well, if I'm not doing it for him, then I'm doing it for me, so I can feel proud.

Oh, you were the dessert. The Rattrays were the meal.

No thanks," I said, giving a sigh of repletion. "That was so good.