Quotes About Fulfillment

Sol had not known he was lonely until he met Sarai.

No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create

Father thought that the first stage of human happiness was a 'fellowship with essence

No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives.

Richard, said Dave, do you ever wonder how much of your life you've spent trying to please the dead?

I think we underestimate how much of our own lives we devote to trying to meet the expectations of the dead, continued Dave. We don't even think about it, we just do.

I couldn't write. I grew tense. I was strangled by my own ego, by my petty desire for what I perceived to be the literary brass ring. I was missing the point, of course. The reward is in the doing.

If I'm not writing, my heart hardens, rather than lifts.

In the first place , I was removed from all the wickedness of the world here. I had neither the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, or the pride of life. I had nothing to covet; for I had all that I was now capable of enjoying.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have. Another

una vida tan variada como pocas se verán en el mundo; que comenzó locamente y concluyó mucho mejor de lo que jamás hubiese esperado.

I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed rather than what I wanted; and this gave me sometimes such secret comforts, that I cannot express them;

într-atâta este de adev?rat c? lipsa uneia singure dintre pl?cerile vieÈ›ii poate uneori otr?vi toate celelalte desf?t?ri.

This harkens back to Freud's famous question, "What does woman want?" As Epstein answers, "She wants a partner who cares what she wants.

Una de las claves para intensificar nuestra conexión con el estado de flujo consiste en sintonizar lo que hacemos con lo que nos gusta, como sucede en el caso de quienes tienen la inmensa fortuna de disfrutar de su trabajo. Las personas con éxito son, independientemente del entorno considerado, las que han sabido dar con esa combinación.

Except for the financially desperate, people do not work for money alone. What also fuels their passion for work is a larger sense of purpose or passion. Given the opportunity, people gravitate to what gives them meaning, to what engages to the fullest their commitment, talent, energy, and skill.

las personas parecen concentrarse mejor cuando se les pide algo más que lo corriente, en cuyo caso son capaces de ir más allá de lo normal. Si la demanda es muy inferior a su capacidad, la persona se aburre y si, por el contrario, es excesiva, termina angustiándose.

para conseguir que hagamos lo que le interesa, la naturaleza lo convierte en un placer».

Good work involves the intertwining of three features: excellence, engagement, and ethics. Good work is technically excellent work—people know what they're doing. It's personally engaging and meaningful. They want to do it. They look forward to going to work. They don't dread it. And it's carried out in an ethical way.

There can be a downside to the achievement drive: some people become workaholics, completely focused on their work goals and neglecting to live a full life. You can see this in students who are "grinds," driven to get the highest grades at the sacrifice of everything else in their lives, just as you see it in those successful executives who work 18-hour days all through the week – and in anyone who has perfectionistic standards.

la gente que prospera en la vida (que tiene relaciones positivas y un trabajo gratificante, que considera que su existencia tiene sentido) experimenta al menos tres acontecimientos emocionales positivos por cada uno negativo.

Research by Harvard's Howard Gardner, Stanford's William Damon, and Claremont's Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi zeroed in on what they call "good work," a potent mix of what people are excellent at, what engages them, and their ethics—what they believe matters.18 Those are more likely to be high-absorption callings: people love what they are doing. Full absorption in what we do feels good, and pleasure is the emotional marker for flow.

Según Huxley, el eterno ahora alberga todo lo que necesitamos para vivir una vida plena. Pero la capacidad humana de pensar en cosas que no están presentes en el ahora eterno es un requisito para todos los logros de nuestra especie que requieren planificación, imaginación o habilidades logísticas. Y todos esos son logros específicamente humanos.

Se tivermos uma atenção mais plena acerca de como usamos o nosso dinheiro, teremos menos probabilidades de nos deixarmos levar por anúncios sedutores de produtos que não nos farão sentir mais felizes. A atenção plena conduzir-nos-ia a desejos materiais mais modestos e a gastar mais tempo e energia a realizar as nossas necessidades mais profundas e mais satisfatórias no que respeita ao sentido das coisas e relações.