Quotes About Fulfillment

Ironically, the pursuit of happiness can lead us into the eternal trap of chasing unhappiness.

Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.

Life is too short to be unhappy.

I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.

I've never disguised the fact that I wasn't happy in teaching. But the reason was that I wanted to do comedy. I would have been a very unhappy security guard or a very unhappy greengrocer.

People from my father's generation didn't have the luxury to be unhappy in their job.

I'm not someone who can just be paid to play keyboards on songs. I tried to do it - I needed the money, but it made me really unhappy and ill to be doing it.

I can't imagine a world where I wouldn't have the means of expression. When I talk to people who don't, it seems like they're really unhappy.

I know for a fact that a lot of actors are desperate and unhappy if their careers are not progressing at what they think is the correct rate. They just go crazy if they're not working. I don't feel I'd be that way. You can always get a few people together and put on a play. Maybe not in New York or L.A., but in a lot of other towns, you can.

I'm somebody who is really unhappy if I don't play.

I'd like my records to reach as many people as possible, but I'm also thinking in terms of how I can keep from getting jaded or unhappy with the process.

I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults.

I never really felt super-Texan. It wasn't like I was unhappy, but I wasn't superhappy.

I think rather than being unhappy with somebody, being alone and happy is better.

I am not unhappy that my contribution was not recognized. I am sure it helped my career.

If you're unhappy, you can't make anything.