Quotes About Fulfillment

I try to treat each evening and weekend as little slices of retirement because no one is guaranteed a lengthy one at the end of their career.

Don't put off your happy life.

No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full.

God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them.

You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.

With arms outstretched I thank. With heart beating gratefully I love. With body in health I jump for joy. With spirit full I live.

The secret to happiness in your work is to find a job in which your neurosis is constructive.

Wish for nothing so much that you forget to make it come true.

A bad day woodworking is better than a good day working.

It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.

Old age needs so little but needs that little so much.

Age is not how old you are, but how many years of fun you've had.

Love, and love alone, is capable of giving you a happier life.

That was freaking awesome; That's how I feel. That was the best feeling in my high school career.

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth – in short, materialism – does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off of you.

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

Enjoyable work is creative work,

After all, it is far better, reasonably, to have continual satisfaction and mild enjoyment in your job than to daily do something you detest only because it pays you that big money that makes the occasional more expensive pleasures possible.

every substance contains undeveloped resources and potentialities, and can be brought outward and forward into perfection.

If we fail to realize our full potential as human beings, we live more on an animalistic level. This is fine for dogs, cats, and chimpanzees but doesn't work quite so well for women and men. Without the capacity to freely shape our own lives, much as a sculptor might carve stone, we inevitably slip into negativity and depression.

Ego is needy but spirit is complete

All desires actually end in freedom. Your desire is fulfilled and you are empty. The emptiness brings you happiness, but it is unconscious. You attribute your happiness to a possession, not the emptiness. It is the freedom from desire that gives you happiness.

The living must look after one another, he thought. The worst possible outcome is to die without having lived.