Quotes About Fulfillment

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate.

Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.

Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry the task you set for yourself to fulfillment.

My father gave me the best advice of my life. He said, "Whatever you do, don't wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life."

Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.

To the same question a 78-year-old Study member replied, "All the many plans for the day. I love life and all I do. I love the out of doors…. It is a joy to be alive and living with my best friend." He was referring to his wife of fifty years with whom his sex life was still "very satisfying.

One can live magnificently in this world, if one knows how to work and how to love, to work for the person one loves and to love one's work."8

There are two pillars of happiness revealed by the seventy-five-year-old Grant Study (and exemplified by Dr. Godfrey Minot Camille). One is love. The other is finding a way of coping with life that does not push love away. And that is why I offer Dr. Camille's story as a sort of outline of the terrain we'll be covering through the rest of this book.

is far more likely that the law of Christ is the law of love that Jesus said embodied the totality of the Old Testament Law (Mt. 22:40).18

Jesus' rebuff of Satan meant in effect that he would not forsake the role of the Servant of God. "Jesus is the Son of God not as a miracle-worker, but in the obedient fulfillment of his task — precisely his task of suffering."19

The time of fulfillment has come; but the Day of the Lord remains an eschatological event in the indeterminate future.

The Kingdom of God involves two great moments: fulfillment within history, and consummation at the end of history. It is precisely this background which provides the setting for the parables of the Kingdom.

Basically, "righteousness" is a concept of relationship. A person is righteous who has fulfilled the demands laid upon him or her by the relationship in which that person stands.12 It is not a word designating personal ethical character, but faithfulness to a relationship.

So to be a disciple, while it involves drastic renunciation, is to enter a realm of privilege (10:29-31), and the dullness and failure of the first disciples is offset by the special revelation that will enable them ultimately to fulfill their high responsibility. Two contrasting aspects of discipleship thus reflect the two poles of Mark's paradoxical Christology.

It is never too late to be what we might have been.

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

Nunca es tarde para ser lo que deberías haber sido.

He was one of the fortunate few for whom there simply was no discernible line between work and play, between creation and recreation.

The best entrepreneurs have found a way to serve others and as a result discover their greatest fulfillment.