Quotes About Fulfillment

There's no such thing as a wasted wish.

I never thought I could write this much and now that it's coming to an end, I feel sad that I have to stop, sort of the way you feel at the end of a really good book and you know you're going to miss the main character. But in this case, the main character is me! Myself. Joe (formerly JoDan) Bunch. —Joe Bunch

If getting is the key to your happiness your key will open few doors. If giving is the key to your happiness you will find few doors locked.

Warden had a theory about women: For years he had been asking them to sleep with him, the ones that interested him. Will you go to bed with me? and they were always shocked, even the rummy barflies. Of course, they always did, but that was only later, after he had fulfilled the proper requirements of approach. No woman ever said, Why, yes, I'd like to go to bed with you. They couldn't do it. It wasnt in them to be that honest.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

So he had sunk to the state of a beast that licks his chaps after meat.

sigh of leaves and waves, waiting, awaiting the fullness of their times

Yet too much happy bores. He stretched more, more. Are you not happy in your? Twang. It snapped.

Most people have some purpose or other in their lives. Aristotle says that the end of every being is its greatest good. We all act in view of some good.

YaÅŸlan?p ac?nas? bir ÅŸekilde eriyip tükenmektense bir tutkunun ihtiÅŸam?yla öteki dünyaya göçmek daha iyiydi.

The hour when he too would take part in the life of that world seemed drawing near and in secret he began to make ready for the great part which he felt awaited him the nature of which he only dimly apprehended.

In her lay a Godframed Godgiven preformed possibility which thou hast fructified with thy modicum of man's work.

Gerty Mc Dowell'a kur yap?p kalbini kazanacak olan adam?n tam bir erkek olmas? gerekiyordu. Ama bekliyordu, hâlâ birinin ona teklif etmesini bekliyordu, ayr?ca bu y?l art?k y?ld? ve yak?nda bitecekti. S.339

Beware of what you wish for in youth because you will get it in middle life.

Everyone could work hard under the right conditions, and it was possible to enjoy hard work, even the most numbing, backbreaking toil. But you had to have a sense of participating in some greater good than just the maintaining of your own small existence; some human quorum or congregation of a size sufficient to align you with the world instead of against it. The imagination had to be fired, and kept alight. The heart had to feel the presence of joy and warmth. He

Even the brightest of dreams-come-true had shadowy recesses.

And then at last I began to realize how terrible a thing it was, the dream that you make come true.

Although the enthusiasm, energy, and positive attitude of the leader may not change the content of work, he or she certainly can make the context more fulfilling.

There is an eternity behind and an eternity before, Onion. That little speck at the center, however long, is life. And that is but comparatively a minute, he said. I has done what the Lord has asked me to do in the little time I had. That was my purpose. To hive the colored.

There is an eternity behind and an eternity before, Onion. That little speck at the center, however long, is life. And that is but comparatively a minute, he said. I has done what the Lord has asked me to do in the little time I had. That was my purpose. To hive the colored.

You are not called to poverty in Christ but to the greatest of spiritual wealth. You are not called to disappointment but to fulfillment. You are not called to sorrow but to joy. How could it be otherwise when the treasure is the only Son of God?

You can only be you, and it is not until you reclaim your unique self that you can be truly great.

Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success — and success is in direct proportion to our service.

There was something wonderful, though, in doing useless work. You could turn it into a sort of art.