Quotes About Fulfillment

Heaven isn't a place, Fanning!...Why does everyone assume it's a destination - some cerebral version of Grand Central Station? It's a state of being! The unshakeable certainty of who you are and where you fit in the world! The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune aside, we suffer most when we try to be someone or something we're not." (page 220)

They wanted a girl who knew what it was like to acquire things out of amusement rather than need. Who sympathized with those whose lives were so pleasantly arranged that they hungered for beauty and meaning rather than food. The

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, the never get around to doing what they want to do.

Her honey-coloured hair fell in heavy wavesbelow her shoulders and as she stared up at him her eyes, clear, speckled amber, seemed to tilt at the corners; her brows were black and swept up in arcs, and she had thick black lashesh. There was about her a kind of warm luxuriance, something immediately suggestive to the men of pleasurable fulfillment- something for which she was not responsible but of which she was acutely conscious.

Some people think what you're supposed to do in life is fill yourself up with loads of things like names, the more the better. But that's not how it works.

But as soon as she came here . . . she knew that she had lost what she wanted, that the life she had as a girl was the one she desired always, that she had no need of a prince, but only her dreams of a prince.

I have to write. It's not an option. When I write, I am literally building myself a place in which to live. Once I'm firmly established within the narrative I pop awake in the morning and it's the first thing I think about. Not in an analytical way, as in "Oh, I haven't really reached the crisis point and it's already page 200—I'd better work on that." It's very much just running towards and into the place I most want to be.

Some people pursue happiness, others create it.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort. —Franklin D. Roosevelt U.S. president

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. —Bob Dylan musician

There was also the desire to co-operate with journalists and writers in an attempt to draw from them the fulfillment of the vocation she saw as theirs: namely, to write something beautiful for God.

Don't count the days, make the days count. -Muhammad Ali Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. -Steve Jobs

Don't count the days, make the days count. -Muhammad Ali Build

Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it. - Katherine Whitehorn Don't

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't. - Chuck Palahniuk

Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit. - Les Brown An

Success is doing what you want, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

The biggest temptation is to settle for too little. - Thomas Merton

Success is doing what you want, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want. - Anthony Robbin

Don't count the days, make the days count. -Muhammad Ali

Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it. - Katherine Whitehorn

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. - Maureen Dowd

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray All