Quotes About Fulfillment

Money has never been a motivation.

Everyone wants more money, but if the motivation is money it's not going to work, if that's the only thing you want.

I think that's why a lot of people are very lonely and get ill when they're older, because I think loneliness and having no motivation, nothing to work towards... I think it kills you.

Money's important, but it isn't a motivator for me.

Well, I motorcycle, I hunt, fish, I do all that. I keep busy. I'm never bored. I've never been bored.

I have a motto: Work to become, not to acquire.

This is man, who, if he can remember ten golden moments of joy and happiness out of all his years, ten moments unmarked by care, unseamed by aches or itches, has power to lift himself with his expiring breath and say: I have lived upon this earth and known glory!

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and only uses half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men will know. - Thomas Wolfe

Was it in woman's nature to be content with all that a man could give her, and not forever want what was not his to give?

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.

Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.

We're all searching for something to fill up what I like to call that big, God-shaped hole in our souls. Some people use alcohol, or sex, or their children, or food, or money, or music, or heroin. A lot of people even use the concept of God itself. I could go on and on. I used to know a girl who used shoes. She had over two-hundred pairs. But it's all the same thing, really. People, for some stupid reason, think they can escape their sorrows.

I've got my girl and my guitar, and for me that's enough.

Bess who has been fingering a fruit-lid jar lid — absently, heedlessly dropped it — aimlessly groping across the table, reclaims it again. Lightning in her brain. She releases, grabs, releases, grabs. I can do. Bang! I did that. I can do. I! ... Centuries of human drive work in her; human ecstasy of achievement. satisfaction deep and fundamental as sex: I can do, I use my powers; I! I!

But truly it was not the money that mattered. It was the distant glitter of everything that was possible in the world, the things she had always wanted for herself and could not name and called happiness because there was no other word.

Mais tu as raison. Dès que j'aurai un vaisseau capable de prendre le large, je trouverai, je sauverai et - s'il en est encore temps - j'épouserai la seule femme qui a, pour moi, à la fois un corps et un visage, et avec qui je n'ai pas besoin de renoncer aux miens.

We waste time searching for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Happiness is not our goal. The achievement of happiness deflects us from our true destiny which is the utter realization of self.

What God has begun in you, he will complete. Your destiny has already been decided. The One who decided it will give you all you need to get there.

Live well, Ichigo. Live well, age well, go bald well, and die after me. And... if you can, die smiling. (Isshin Kurosaki)

That's right... I never felt a sense of superiority because I could see spirits. And I never once thought that I could make a living or help someone with it. I just longed for a life where I couldn't see them. And I finally got what I always wanted.

Fullbring is the ability of love! It's the ability to draw out the maximum power of something a person loves! A guy like Ginjo who only likes his pendant…turns that pendant into a weapon to fight with! But not me!! I love a lot of things. And I'll keep looking for new things I love! I wanna spend the rest of my life collecting things I love…and die surrounded by them!

There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.