Quotes About Fulfillment

I glory more in the coming purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

Riches enlarge, rather than satisfy appetites.

True abundance is not about gathering more things, it's about touching the place in us that is connected to the divine source of abundance, so that we know what we need in the moment will be provided.

It's time we put thoughts of lack behind us. It's time for us to discover the secrets of the stars, to sail to an uncharted land, to open up a new heaven where our spirits can soar.

It is wealth to be content.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

If you're happy, you're wealthy! Happiness doesn't need a bank account.

Wealth ... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more.

Sometimes when you have everything, you can't really tell what matters.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it.

Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.

Is sex dirty? Only if it is done right.

Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes; work never begun.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction, the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel, that is, as a symbol of reward and recognition, in the last analysis, of acceptance by one's fellowmen.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.

After fifty years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether it is to go to work on their novel or at the assembly plant or fixing somebody's teeth.

The fun of being alive is realizing that you have a talent and you can use it every day, so it grows stronger. ... And if you're in an atmosphere where this talent is appreciated instead of just tolerated, why, it's just as good as sex.

If a man is called to be a streetsweep-er, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.