Quotes About Fulfillment

Of this I am absolutely sure: Do not reach the era of child-rearing and real jobs with a guitar case full of crushing regret for all the things you wished you'd done in your youth. I know too many people who didn't do those things. They all end up mingy, addled, shrink-wrapped versions of the people they intended to be.

I mean: be your best, most gigantic self.

Love is our essential nutrient. Without it, life has little meaning. It's the best thing we have to give and the most valuable thing we receive. It's worthy of all the hullabaloo.

Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life.

Honors to me now are not what they once were.

You're constantly trying to prove yourself, even after you've made it.

I want your lives to have purpose & passion. I wish to meet all of you so I can tell you how much I love all of you.

I think for a lot of people, they think if you're successful, all of a sudden you get some card in the mail that says you're gonna be totally satisfied and happy for the rest of your life. It doesn't happen like that. Life, for me, happens the way it always has ... The only difference is I'm in Linkin Park.

If they didn't have box hockey and baseball cards in heaven, Andy was going to be pretty bored.

People argued less on a full stomach.

"Happily ever after" depends on where we choose to end the story.

There is no success but your own success.

Make sure you are seeing projects 100 percent of the way through, not just 95 percent... The last 5 percent of Train Your Brain for Success is about that last 5 percent in your life.

...a soul flowering with spirituality...

It would be idle to say that life is a steady progression in happiness. But it is most certain that in the natural course of things a healthy soul grows continually richer until its latest day on earth.

Employment is essential to our purity, happiness, and well-being.

When I stop the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatsoever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die; for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no "brief candle" for me. It is a sort of splendid torch, which I have got hold of for the moment; and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Let us recognize that our wings are to frivol with. The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a Good Time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end.

How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me; I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed...

A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers.

When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you've got plenty to watch.

Criminal Minds, The Dance of Love: "Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."

Remember wishing the weekend would last forever? Are you happy now?!