Quotes About Fulfillment

The single most important contribution education can make to a child's development is to help him toward a field where his talents best suit him, where he will be satisfied and competent.

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

The aptitudes you need to succeed start with intellectual horsepower—but people need emotional competence, too, to get the full potential of their talents.

Una investigación realizada por Howard Gardner, de Stanford, William Damon, de Harvard, y Csikszentmihalyi, de Claremont, se centró en lo que ellos llamaban un "buen trabajo", una combinación entre la ética (es decir, lo que uno cree que le gusta) y aquello en lo que destaca (es decir, lo que realmente le gusta).

The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward.

we have three innate psychological needs—competence, autonomy, and relatedness. When those needs are satisfied, we're motivated, productive, and happy.

When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.

We leave lucrative jobs to take low-paying ones that provide a clearer sense of purpose.

You were all I wanted, the best gift. I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.

when I think about sex, you know, I want it to feel good. Not feel good, shut up, but right. Happy, not just banging away somewhere. You know, you should not just do it to do it. You should love the guy.

There were a million things, everything, I didn't know I was stupid- the official descriptive phrase for happy.

We steal the happiness of others in order to be happy ourselves, and when it is stolen from us we voyage desperately to steal it back.

Lo que sucede con los deseos del corazón es que tu corazón ni siquiera sabe lo que desea hasta que lo tiene delante.

Ni siquiera lo había estado buscando, no a ti, y ahora eras lo que mi corazón deseaba.

Lo que sucede con los deseos del corazón es que tu corazón ni siquiera sabe lo que desea hasta que lo tiene enfrente.

Don't break my heart just yet, or ask me to lose my reverie on the sticky floor... let me believe I'm the guy they all paid to watch all big and mighty, in the dark where I guess I belong.

Recent research in social psychology has shown that happy people are not people who have more; rather, they are people who are happy with what they already have. Happy people engage in satisficing all of the time, even if they don't know it.

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time. Can you find more time to do the things you enjoy doing?

Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not yet born. That's enough.

She was excited by the idea of having something dedicated to her, but I don't think she really liked it. Just goes to show that you can't have everything you want in one woman.One more argument for polygamy.

Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not yet born. That's enough.

Es gibt kein größeres Glück als die plötzlich aufflammende Lösung eines Problems.

It's painful to think about that, but what we have, I suspect, is more than most people find in a lifetime.