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Quotes About Fulfillment

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
~ Jack Vance
Until work has reached its previous stage nympharium privileges are denied to all.
~ Jack Vance
Ripeness and amplitude were the first and most essential ingredients of true comeliness. Men liked to grasp something substantial when in a mood to do so: this was Queen Sollace's experience.
~ Jack Vance
As Genghis Khan reportedly said, there is no good in anything until it is finished.
~ Jack Weatherford
Your people give their days (and sometimes their nights) to you. They give their hands, brains, and hearts. Sure, the company pays them. It fills their wallets. But as a leader, you need to fill their souls. You can do that by getting in their skin, by giving the work meaning, by clearing obstacles, and by demonstrating the generosity gene. And you can do it, perhaps most powerfully, by creating an environment that's exciting and enjoyable.
~ Jack Welch
Life is too short to spend every day doing something you don't love.
~ Jack Welch
Indeed, the biggest winners in the world are those who answer yes to the question, "Am I living the life I choose?
~ Jack Welch
Tell them to grab on to the career that engages their brain and heart and soul and gives them meaning. Tell them that eventually, the money will come, and if it doesn't, in time, they will find themselves rich with something money can't buy. And that, obviously, would be happiness.
~ Jack Welch
Only satisfied customers can give people job security. Not companies.
~ Jack Welch
Working to fulfill someone else's needs or dreams almost always catches up with you.
~ Jack Welch
I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing
~ Jacqueline Carey
There are others. There will be others. Other heroes, other heroines. Other prophecies to fulfill, other adversaries to despise. There will be stories told and forgotten, and reinvented anew until one day, perhaps, the oldest are remembered, and the beginning may end, and the ending begin.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Non c'è appagamento che non sia reso più dolce dal protrarsi del desiderio.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but satisfaction brought him back.
~ Jacqueline Carey
It will get better --- I promise you. Would it? Would she ever shudder and tremble and stiffen with the ecstasy she had felt? It didn't matter. All that mattered was Lyon, to hold him in her arms, to please him --- to know that she could feel love, that this remarkable man wanted her body against his...
~ Jacqueline Susann
She had always told herself that she did hti job because she wanted to help others; afterall, hadn't Maurice told her once that the most important question any individual could ask was, How might I serve? If her response to that question had been pure, surely she would have coninued with the calling to be a nurse.... But that role hadn't been quite enough for her. She would have missed the excitement, the thrill when she embarked on the work of collecting clues to support a case.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
Je voudrais apprendre à vivre enfin.
~ Jacques Derrida
Attachments are attractions we feel toward objects or people that we believe have brought us pleasure
~ Jaganath Carrera
Suffering is not caused by forces outside of us but by a faulty and limited perception of life and of who we are. Our basic misperception gives rise to endless cravings for sense satisfaction. Since everything in the universe is constantly changing, nothing in Nature is capable of bringing lasting fulfillment.
~ Jaganath Carrera
We have to ask ourselves if we are really enjoying life or if we are simply on a roller-coaster ride of cravings, the efforts to fulfill them, and temporary satisfaction.
~ Jaganath Carrera
I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.
~ Jaime Gil de Biedma
A lot of nonsense is spoken about work. Some of the finest men I've known were the laziest. Never work because it's expected of you. Find out how much work you must do to live and be happy. Don't do any more.
~ James A. Michener
Don't put off what you can do today because if you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.
~ James A. Michener