Quotes About Fulfillment

For the first time in years, she felt a sense of belonging, of amazing lightness. She

Life is too long not to be happy.

Church burnout will not take place if we are seeking to please God in our service rather than to please people.

Lo mismo sucede en una iglesia. Las personas en la iglesia deben conocer el proceso porque son parte integral de su cumplimiento.

Lives not fully lived are the worst kinds of stewardship.

The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.

He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.

The Lord bestows his blessings there, where he finds the vessels empty.

Give up everything, and you will gain everything; let go of your desires, and you will find peace.

It is vanity to wish for a long life and to care little about a well-spent life.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

If, then, the final happiness of man does not consist in those exterior advantages which are called goods of fortune, nor in goods of the body, nor in goods of the soul in its sentient part, nor in the virtues of practical intellect, called art and prudence, it remains that the final happiness of man consists in the contemplation of truth.

So if the ultimate felicity of man does not consist in external things which are called the goods of fortune, nor in the goods of the body, nor in the goods of the soul according to its sensitive part, nor as regards the intellective part according to the activity of the moral virtues, nor according to the intellectual virtues that are concerned with action, that is art and prudence – we are left with the conclusion that the ultimate felicity of man lies the contemplation of truth.

Happiness consists in self-application to something higher.

In this being may our treatise find its end and fulfillment.

Satisfaction = what you have ÷ what you want

When I behold what pleasure is Pursuit, What life, what glorious eagerness it is, Then mark how full Possession falls from this, How fairer seems the blossom than the fruit

Who is a wretch, or unhappy? He that holdeth not himself content with that that God hath sent him.

What it means is you will fight until you're all used up. Far from being sour, life is so sweet you will live it to the hilt and be consumed by it.

Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on a journey, then we must do so and not worry about our condition, even if it's the worst possible condition, because, if it is, we're finished anyway, whether we go on the journey or not, and it's better to die having made the journey we're been longing for than to be stifled by our longing.

I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself.