Quotes About Fulfillment

Lawrence Kasdan has this to say about Star Wars: "Force Awakens, New Hope, Empire—these are movies about fulfilling what is inside you. That's a story that everybody can relate to. Even when you get to be my age, you're still trying to figure that out. It's amazing but it's true. What am I, what am I about, have I fulfilled my potential, and, if not, is there still time? That's what the Star Wars saga is about.

I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything.

If I could always read I should never feel the want of company.

I believe I am happy because I am not ambitious.

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

If anyone is trying to make you jealous of their own heaven, they are clearly not happy enough there.

It is unwise to make your personal happiness dependent upon your first having created a more civilized human culture. Because your hoped-for culture is most probably dependent for its creation upon your first having personally achieved greater happiness yourself.

I remember thinking I just want more. This isn't it. Fame is not the goal. Money is not the goal. To be able to know how to get peace of mind, how to be happy, is something you don't just stumble across. You've got to search for it.

He that is not handsome at twenty, nor strong at thirty, nor rich at forty, nor wise at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, rich, or wise.

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.

You don't have to go to college to be a success ... We need the people who run the offices, the people who do the hard physical work of our society.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

People always think that success will bring happiness, that money will bring happiness. Success does not breed happiness. Positive energy breeds happiness and happiness breeds success.

one can be both free and economically secure while leading a totally meaningless and empty existence.

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

But the real juice of life, whether it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much in the products of our efforts as in the process of living itself, in how it feels to be alive.

Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.

If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.

there are two things men have never been able to satisfy: their curiosity and their greed.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

4 I must do the works of him who sent me, while it is day; the night comes when no man can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

We never find what we set out hearts on. We ought to be glad of that.

In… the book of Egoism, it is written, possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.