Quotes About Fulfillment

But what if that was exactly what you wanted: everything?

Have a good life, Ari de Champlain.

Quiero que sepas una cosa: me ha encantado mi vida. Estuve mucho tiempo esperando que empezara, esperando que hubiera más. Tenía la impresión de que lo único que hacía era conducir, ir a la compra y esperar. Pero ¿sabes qué? No me perdí ni un solo momento con mi familia, siempre estuve ahí. Eso es lo que recordaré, y ellos se tendrán los unos a los otros.

I learned far too late that life is simply about being good and decent to others. It's as plain as that. But first, you must be good and decent to yourself. Find your own road. Find your own happiness. You must, my dear. You must, or you will wind up old and alone and full of regrets.

Not that I regretted having Annie; I'd never felt that way for a second. I just regretted that I'd never had a chance to live the life I'd thought I was supposed to.

In life, my dear, you must actually go after what you want. You can't rewrite the past, but you can choose to live with your whole heart in the here and now.

learned far too late that life is simply about being good and decent to others. It's as plain as that. But first, you must be good and decent to yourself. Find your own road. Find your own happiness. You must, my dear. You must, or you will wind up old and alone and full of regrets.

Find your own happiness. You must, my dear. You must, or you will wind up old and alone and full of regrets.

think you're sad. And I think you're searching for purpose. But becoming someone's mistress is not the way to find yourself.

Please. I learned far too late that life is simply about being good and decent to others. It's as plain as that. But first, you must be good and decent to yourself. Find your own road. Find your own happiness. You must, my dear. You must, or you will wind up old and alone and full of regrets.

Life is a series of opportunities, and you have to have the courage to seize them, before the years pass you by and leave you with nothing but regrets.

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.

In his view, we were already a success, because we were doing something hard and it was something that mattered to us. You don't measure things like that with words like success or failure, he said. Satisfaction comes from trying hard things and then going on to the next hard thing, regardless of the outcome. What mattered was whether or not you were moving in a direction you thought was right.

farming takes root in you and crowds out other endeavors, makes them seem paltry. Your acres become a world. And maybe you realize that it is beyond those acres or in your distant past, back in the realm of TiVo and cubicles, of take-out food and central heat and air, in that country where discomfort has nearly disappeared, that you were deprived. Deprived of the pleasure of desire, of effort and difficulty and meaningful accomplishment.

Grow it right, and you feel insanely rich, no matter what you own.

Food, a French man told me once, is the first wealth. Grow it right, and you feel insanely rich, no matter what you own.

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.

You know something, it's best no to have what you need because then, you start looking for what you need and make it what you need.

I'm having a great time. I get to travel and see the world. And yeah, I'll have a family, because I don't want to miss out on that amazing experience, but it's not defining who I am.

It's just that fun atmosphere, working on the car, being with the guys. This is exactly what I needed.

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

You can't buy happiness

dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.