Quotes About Fulfillment

I was never upset that I did not get an Emmy. That I did get an Emmy nomination, I couldn't be happier and prouder.

I was terribly upset not to be in 'Dickensian,' so I pretend to look down on it. The part I should have played, Mrs. Gamp, is done brilliantly by Pauline Collins, but I entered this world for no other reason than to play that part.

I won't be upset if I don't win a ring, because I gave it my all.

I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.

If I could go upstairs and write every day, I would be happy. I don't need recreation.

The upward climb I'm on, obviously I'm getting better. And if that continues to happen I should end up in a good place.

My career has always kind of moved forward and upward. I've never had anything kind of stall out or go in the opposite direction. I've always kind of been moving in the right direction.

Getting to do shows with Lady Antebellum, Keith Urban, and Sam Hunt is just awesome. It's so inspiring because I grew up such fans of Lady A and Keith, and to be able to sing my songs on the same stage as them and then stand side stage and watch them is just a really special thing.

Open your heart and find your Destiny

Don't waste your most important resource—your life.

What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start.

Women are pleasured treasures.

Your reward will be the widening of the horizon as you climb. And if you achieve that reward, you will ask no other.

Finding your bliss can make survival seem like a joyous journey. And a strange thing happens along the way when you love what you are doing: you become good at it.

Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.

The toughest thing about being a housewife is you have no place to stay home from.

Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life or contemplative life or saintly life.

There are hundreds of stories I've heard from black women from my generation, generations before me, and the next, that have never been given an opportunity to fulfill their dreams.

For women, the important ingredients for happiness are to forge an identity, serve the Lord, get an education, develop your talents, serve your family, and, if possible, to have a family of your own.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough, ' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.