Quotes About Fulfillment

College. Owning a home. Marriage. Children. Having a cushy job. Postponing our dreams for when there will be money. "Work hard and succeed!" Ten thousand hours to mastery. And so on.

Get Paid, Get Laid, Lose Weight"—because those are the three things people will pay for.

Your hands are not made to type out memos. Or put paper through fax machines. Or hold a phone up while you talk to people you dislike. One hundred years from now your hands will rot like dust in your grave.

Supply and demand. If you reduce the supply of you by saying no, then the demand for you goes up and you make more money—and have more fun.

What is enough? It's not a number.

To be happy with your loved ones. To be satisfied for every gift in your life, for every moment, not rushing to the next moment of mastery.

Is this just a dream? Can life be lived so large? Have I been able to live life so large? To live to my fullest potential?

The definition of "success" for me is: "Is today successful?

True wealth occurs when you don't have to bow down to any gatekeepers—regardless of the money involved. Money is just a by-product. You are out of prison. You are free.

Why limit yourself to a single passion? Here's a secret: you don't have to worry about "finding" your passion. You're naturally going to get passionate about what you are good

Nothing wrong with suburbs and kids. But every day, I feel she is telling me, you have to unlock your creativity. If you don't let it flow, it will be trapped inside, it will mutate, it will kill you. Every day, create.

But deep inside you there is a creative force that desperately wants you to succeed, wants you to make a lot of money, wants you to fall in love and be happy, wants you to do these things not so you can live in exotic mansions and travel the world fifty times over, but so that you are free from the constraints of a normal job and can pursue the real exploration of what and where is the happiness around you.

Your hands are not made to type out memos. Or put paper through fax machines. Or hold a phone up while you talk to people you dislike. One hundred years from now your hands will rot like dust in your grave. You have to make wonderful use of those hands now. Kiss your hands so they can make magic.

Leadership is not about achieving your dream. It's about helping everyone else achieve their dreams.

Raymond Chandler's first novel came out at 51.

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it

Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head

Money, iit turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of otherthings if you did.

I think people ought to do what they want to do, what else are they alive for?

She marched into the street, found a liquor store and bought a bottle; and the weight of the bottle in her straw handbag somehow made everything real; as the purchase of a railroad ticket proves the imminence of a journey.

On each piece of paper I found addresses, telephone numbers, memos of various rendezvous made and kept—or perhaps not kept—people met and remembered, or perhaps not remembered, hopes probably not fulfilled: certainly not fulfilled, or I would not have been standing on that street corner.

Let us say, then, that truth, as used here, is meant to imply a devotion to the human being, his freedom and fulfillment; freedom which cannot be legislated, fulfillment which cannot be charted.