Quotes About Fulfillment

The best armour of old age is a well spent life perfecting it.

The best armour of old age is a well spent life preceding it.

It's not just that people sacrifice their love relationships, and the care of their children, to pursue their careers. Something like this has perhaps always existed. The point is that today many people feel called to do this, feel they ought to do this, feel their lives would be somehow wasted or unfulfilled if they didn't do it.

The only meaningful life is that which is deepened by carrying through these commitments, living through the dead periods in order to lay the foundations for the creative ones.

Spontaneity at all levels is guided by the goal of getting it right; being clearly "forced" to come to some conclusion is not its negation, but its highest fulfillment.

The world does not end tonight And the fruit that we will pick tomorrow Await us, weighing the unstripped bough.

The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.

True happiness … is found in fulfilling our higher nature, shaping our lives and our circumstances to reflect the way we are hardwired.

I'd always follow Nixon's orders, but you can't order somebody to be happy.

Today the concept of delayed gratification is seen as a denial of some inherent natural right

But really, it's probably just easiest to keep doing what I'm doing. You know how it goes. At first it's just for the time being, until you can get your own story together, be the hero in something of your own. You tell people it's your day job, you tell yourself it's your day job, and then, at some point, without you noticing, it stops being your day job and just becomes your job.

all his life, all he's ever wanted was to be Kung Fu guy. But when he finally got it, he realizes what his mother meant. 'You can be more.

We don't need the Good Life. The Pretty Good Life would be just fine.

At first it's just for the time being, until you can get your own story together, be the hero in something of your own. You tell people it's your day job, you tell yourself it's your day job, and then, at some point, without you noticing, it stops being your day job and just becomes your job.

Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire. Not a unidirectional arrow, not causal, as in, desire leads to suffering. Desire is suffering, and therefore, by axiom, suffering is desire.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

As I approach my golden years, I find that the creative juices still flow bountifully. I've got enough album concepts and ideas to take me years down the road, and as long as God gives me the strength, I'll be writing and recording new music.

It was to be another one of those moments when just a few words will change your whole life. She said, "You have been invited to join the Grand Ole Opry!" Did I hear her right? Did she really say what I thought she said? At the age of seventy-one, was I really going to realize one of my longest-held and fondest dreams?

I've always known I wanted a family.

So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.

I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine.

Some people are very unfulfilled. In consequence they write passionately good romance because they believe that they could still find happiness. Emily Bronte was not a fulfilled woman but the passion she felt went into Wuthering Heights.