Quotes About Fulfillment

I've often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame, so that they could see that it's not where you're going to find your sense of completion.

I used to trouble about what life was for — now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Working on the assumption (and it is only an assumption) that we have one life each it is important to every one of us that we do the best we can with it. If society says to us: 'We are prepared to look after you from the cradle to the grave provided you live in a boring place and work at a boring job' then we should consider very seriously whether this is a bargain we want to accept.

What constitutes a life well spent, anyway? Love and admiration from your fellow men is all that any one can ask.

There is no problem a burrito can't solve.

By the time I have money to burn, my fire will have burnt out.

May your bobbin always be full!

I cannot count my day complete 'Til needle, thread and fabric meet.

There are lots of opport?nities o?t there. And yo? know what's missing.

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Perhaps all pleasure is relief.

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

If it is a wild tune, it is a poem... Theme alone can steady us down. Just as the first mystery was how a poem could have a tune in such a straightness as meter, so the second mystery is how a poem can have wildness and at the same time a subject that shall be fulfilled. It should be of the pleasure of the poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same as for love.

Life's Unpredictability. — Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is.

An acre of performance is worth the whole Land of promise...

A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.

Between to-day and to-morrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms.

When you walk in purpose, you collide with destiny.

We all possess the thunder of pure fury and the calm breeze of tranquility. If it wasn't for tomorrow, how much would we get done today? Whatever your purpose... embrace it completely. Get lost in the clouds every now and then so you never lose sight of God's wonder.

Don't trade your life for just an empty hourglass.

Life begins at retirement.

Bildad... had concluded his adventurous career by wholly retiring from active life at the goodly age of sixty, and dedicating his remaining days to the quiet receiving of his well-earned income.

It is in his pleasures that a man really lives, it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Retire? That's ridiculous. What does it for you is to have something to get up for in the morning. Now, they say, you should retire at 70. When I was 70, I still had pimples.