Quotes About Fulfillment

Work never failed to give me that same ego boost I had experienced when filming that first cereal commercial. People bent over backward to give me what I wanted. And what kid doesn't want adults eating out of his hand, catering to his every wish? Because life was all about getting to the place where I could be happy all the time, acting was the perfect venue. It wasn't only the ego boost that kept me going. I truly loved what I did.

Making a different choice isn't the same thing as giving up," Janeway said. "Sometimes we're not happy because we aren't living up to our own expectations. But sometimes we're not happy because we're asking the wrong things of ourselves. Part of growing up is learning to tell the difference between the two.

We all have two lives, Counselor: the one we want and the one we learn to live with. I'm content with both of mine.

Are you saying that as long as you are capable of bearing children, you are expected to do nothing else?" Torres asked. "What else could we possibly do that any civilized society would regard more highly?" Wentin asked. Any

Why do you think women are designed to outlive men? Why do we keep going for thirty years after our bodies can no longer reproduce? Do you think nature meant for those years to be useless? No, of course not. Our lives are designed to have three parts. The first is education. The second, creation. And in part three, we put our experience to use and protect those who are weaker.

I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party.

Did you ever get exactly what you want and find out it's not what you wanted at all?

So I parried, 'You're afraid to die, eh? Oh well.' 'Nonsense. It's only that my life's work isn't done yet.' That is how pompously he expressed himself, it was sickening.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the passing, we have arrived.

There are some people who cannot help giving. Why? Because they experience a real psychological pleasure in doing so. They don't do it with an eye to their own advantage, they do it on the quiet; they detest doing it openly because that would take away some of the satisfaction. They do it in secret, with quick trembling hands, their breasts rocked by a spiritual well being which they do not themselves understand.

Asakawa himself didn't much care if the company made money or lost it. All that mattered to him was whether or not the work was engaging. No matter how easy a job was physically, if it didn't involve imagination, it usually ended up exhausting you.

Wealth and children are the adornment of life.

Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we spend out lives seeking out our other half. A drink is my beloved. Without it, I am wanting; I feel half finished.

Being a mom is what life is about. I hope people realize what the priorities in life should be and know not everything has to be perfect.

People think happiness will simply fall into their laps. You have to aspire to it. And sometimes you have to seize it when it's kicking and screaming.

I've always wanted to be a dad.

If women could see what is real & true & how the elegant possession of what's in each of our individual hearts is what matters more than anything.

You were born to be amazing.

When we live in anything less than righteousness, peace and joy, we are not experiencing everything that our Lord paid for.

Meditating on the prophetic words spoken over our lives reminds us of God's desire for our future and His ability to fulfill our destiny.

We now know that doing good to others, having a network of strong and supportive relationships, and having a sense that one's life is worthwhile are the three greatest determinants of happiness.

As Morgan freeman once said, Get busy living or get busy dying.

You didn't break my heart, I say. "You filled it up.

Real love would be when no matter how happy you were at any given moment, it would be better with the person you love. Like having that person there would make it perfect