Quotes About Fulfillment

Gran parte de los que tienen mentalidad de crecimiento ni siquiera planean llegar a la cumbre; llegan a ella como resultado de hacer lo que aman. Es irónico: la cima es el lugar donde los que tienen mentalidad fija ansían estar, y sin embargo, es el lugar al que llegan –sin buscarlo– muchos de los que tienen mentalidad de crecimiento, simplemente como consecuencia del entusiasmo que sienten por lo que hacen.

Gran parte de los que tienen mentalidad de crecimiento ni siquiera planean llegar a la cumbre; llegan a ella como resultado de hacer lo que aman.

No matter how much people want to feel loved, appreciated, and a part of things, they will be lonely until they make a commitment to themselves, a commitment that is so total that they will give up community and love, if necessary, to be fully who they are.

The hero's achievement, in short, is to affirm life.

No life, no matter how successful and exciting it might be, will make you happy if it is not really your life. And no life will make you miserable if it is genuinely your own.

A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is.

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, screaming, "WOO HOO What a Ride!

is that you only get one life. We pass this way just once, Fay. Make the most of it.

What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start.

His most remarkable gift, as Laura saw it, was a deep and profound contentment with what he had.

Rose once jotted down a quotation she attributed to her mother: "I don't know which is more heartbreaking, a dream un[ful]filled or a dream realized.

In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.

Some good shit happens fast (a bestselling book), and some good shit happens slow (love).

Being alive is nothing without being able to live.

This is your success and this is the magic hour, the golden time before the time. Just be in it. You earned it. Don't spread it and don't pull on it and don't push it and don't share it and don't examine it. This is it.

I get home and there's a box on my front porch. My serotonin surges and Jeff Bezos is a rich man because he knows how much we all just love to get a present, even if it's a present we bought for ourselves.

It's like Michael Cunningham says in The Hours: Happiness is believing that you're gonna be happy. It's hope.

There really is no such thing as the truth but there is such thing as happiness,

know it's hard, being with the wrong person when the right person is right here.

you are too young to feel like the only living you have left to do is vicarious.

This was not a blowjob; this was fellatio, my friends.

say and the problem with books is that they end. They seduce you. They spread their legs to you and pull you inside. And you go deep and leave your possessions and your ties to the world at the door and you like it inside and you don't want for your possessions or your ties and then, the book evaporates. You turn the page and there is nothing

The atmosphere changes immediately. And there's an out of the way place where your mind stores things. You can't reach it yourself. It's like the game Operation and you are the body and someone else has to have a steady hand, they have to poke that part of you, that hot spot. When you get what you want, what you always wanted, what it means to be you is to want this thing and now you have it and there is a roar. Love.

What we want, of course, what lies in the cupboard marked 'important,' is connection, love: If the deepest source of human hunger had a name, that would be it; if the boxes of constraint in which so many women live could be smashed to bits, that would be the tool, the sledgehammer that shatters emptiness and uncovers the hope buried beneath it.