Quotes About Fulfillment

Although your staff may be exposed to the message "work longer and harder" while they're at the office, they're getting a very different message at home. The message at home is, "Life is passing you by. Your laundry is piling up in the closet, your babies are uncuddled, your spouse is starting to look elsewhere. There is only one time around on this merry-go-round called life, only one shot at the brass ring. And if you use your life up on C++ . . .

Maybe she'd needed her dream to come true to realize it was the wrong dream.

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.

You know, I think anybody who has a dream to do something, that dream will keep you warm in the coldest of nights. You know what I mean? When you're like most lonely... that dream needs to be nurtured and cultivated so, even if you never speak to another person again in your life, that thing, that dream has to keep you company. So I would pour everything into that dream.

We each carry with us unique gifts, recognized and unrecognized. We long to harness those gifts in a way that gives life significance and helps us to matter more in the lives of others.

The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.

We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves

A conclusion I've come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it's really about making work into something that isn't drudgery and slavery, and then work and life can become one thing.

Career is just posh slavery.

When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex.

Happiness Equals Reality Minus Expectations

Urbanism is the most advanced, concrete fulfillment of a nightmare. Littre defines nightmare as 'a state that ends when one awakens with a start after extreme anxiety.' But a start against whom? Who has stuffed us to the point of somnolence?

Without a target to shoot at, our lives are literally aimless. Without something productive to do, without positive goals and a purpose, a human being languishes. And then one of two things happens. Aimlessness begins to shut a person down in spiritual lethargy and emptiness, or the individual lashes out and turns to destructive goals just to make something happen.

Contentment = An acceptance of the present Fulfillment = A progressive realization of your potential Satisfaction = Contentment + Fulfillment Enjoyment = Pleasure + Love Happiness = Satisfaction + Enjoyment

We find our vocational sweet spot when our creativity is most unleashed, our passions most engaged, and our work makes the greatest contribution to advancing the mission of the organization or the business where we serve.

Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours

A place where they could be people they never dreamed they'd be.

The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. —Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE