Quotes About Fulfillment

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

If it is true ... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it not then follow that life could be, even ought to be, lived as a story, that what one has to do in life is to make the story come true?

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

God has made us for Himself, and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction until they find it in Him.

Elsewhere, Schmemann puts it beautifully: Christ came not to replace "natural" matter with some "supernatural" and sacred matter, but to restore it and to fulfill it as the means of communion with God.

Now I shall be of some use in the world, as every one ought to be; it is the only way to be happy.

To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.

There's always something lacking for human happiness, we can never be perfectly content.

Man naar ogsaa at dø engang, og det er Synd, hvis man saa har forsømt at leve.

Det havde altid været et mål at få pension. Det var blevet sagt allerede ved hans vugge, at han skulle være noget, der gav ret til pension, når han blev 65. Pensuionen havde så at sige været formålet med hans liv.

A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others.

F?r? cunoaÈ™terea estetic?, nici raÈ›iunea teoretic?, nici cea practic? nu pot s?-È™i ating? împlinirea total?.

the goal God sets for the world is now not simply dissolution in him alone but the fulfillment and preservation also of the created realm, "without confusion (?????????)", in the Incarnation of his Son.

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.

Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.

It's about freedom, joy, and wisdom. It's all about divine love.

The reason for spiritual enlightenment is not to escape life, but to learn how to live it richly, to enjoy it. The Language of Soul

Most of our people have never had it so good.

I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really cool.

When he thought he was doing something that made a difference to people, he could bear any burden [Moses]. When he lost that sense of achievement, he became too discouraged to keep on doing the hard things.

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically defineable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be described as the general neurosis of our time.

True success consists not in becoming the person you dreamed of being when you were young, but in becoming the person you were meant to be, the person you are capable of being when you are at your best.

We need other people, and we need to be needed by other people, in order to be who we might be, who we yearn to be.