Quotes About Fulfillment

People don't need love. What they need is success in form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.

The absence of humanity is a fulfillment so graceful that even God would understand if he invented them, which he probably didn't.

he estado solo pero rara vez me he sentido solo he saciado mi sed en el pozo de mi ser, y el vino era bueno, el mejor que he probado

It wasn't so much that I was TRYING to be a writer, it was more like doing something that felt good to do.

Existem bilhões de pessoas no mundo que não atingem o sucesso pela criação. Quer me dizer que elas estão mortas? – Sim. – E você tem uma alma? Você é um dos poucos que tem uma alma? – Diria que sim.

Never had I felt so good. It was better than masturbating.

Eating seemed very important.

And the Lord thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the Lord will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:

my spirit was programmed to abundance.

Yeah, well, I wanted to be a screenwriter, and guess what? I am one. That's the other tragedy in life.

happiness comes from doing great things-rather than getting great things

There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred.

the path to contentment was to abide by one's own nature and follow it's path.

For they were, in the first place, even down to the very poorest, a well-fed people, with fewer luxuries than we, but more abundant necessaries; and while beef, ale, and good woollen clothes could be obtained in plenty, without overworking either body or soul, men had time to amuse themselves in something more intellectual than mere toping in pot-houses.

That Enough Is As Good As a Feast' ...The inventor of [this saying] did not believe it himself....Goodly legs and shoulders of mutton, exhilarating cordials, books, pictures, the opportunities of seeing foreign countries, independence, heart's ease, a man's own time to himself, are not muck — however we may be pleased to scandalise with that appellation the faithful metal that provides them for us.

God has called each one of us to his work in his time." —NO RUSTY SWORDS

God never calls His people to accomplish anything without promising to supply their every need.

When God's in it, the job gets done.

God uses those who seem ill-fitted for a significant life.

Believe me, once you have tasted worship—the kind of worship that captures your heart and rivets your full attention on the living Lord—nothing less satisfies. Nothing else even comes close. Once you have tasted true worship, you will never want to play church again.

When you are in the center of God's will, my friend, it flows.

As Os Guinness writes, To be sure, calling is not what it is commonly thought to be. It has to be dug out from under the rubble of ignorance and confusion. And, uncomfortably, it often flies in the face of our human inclinations. But nothing short of God's call can ground and fulfill the truest human desire for purpose.3

It's not as if he's had much of a chance until now, but somehow he has internalized the ur-cultural narrative: you grow up, go to university, get a job, meet Ms. Right, get married, settle down, have kids, grow old together . . . it's like some sort of checklist. Or maybe a list of epic quests you've got to complete while level-grinding in a game you're not allowed to quit, with no respawns and no cheat codes.

I've learned that life is never what you expect it will be. Just as you come to the fringes of happiness, touching it, feeling it, tasting it—and desperately hoping for the rest of it—it's jerked away." "You have your art." "Yes, but that's a compulsion, not happiness. I paint because I must. I love because I want to be loved in return. Wanted to be.