Quotes About Fulfillment

He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass.

The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.

Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.

To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.

To dream too much of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

My expectations-which I extended whenever I came close to accomplishing my goals-made it impossible ever to feel satisfied with my success.

I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department store, with new things every week - all the money to buy them, and maybe a little more than the neighbours.

I'm going to spend it all. . . why leave it to our errors?

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire.

A little house well filled, a little land well tilled, and a little wife well willed, are great riches.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.

Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path ... a thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do ... to find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.

Let them know a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it, you will not enjoy it there.

Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.

Seek out that particular mental attitude which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely. The condemned man has that joy.

The possibilities are unlimited as long as you are true to your life's purpose.

Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.