Quotes About Fulfillment

His problem was the eternal question: What should he be? Inventor, scientist, artist—the energy he felt surging through him, an energy far more than physical and yet pervading the restlessness of his body, was a burden to him until he could find the path for its release.

As life has proved, it is true that a woman's body is more important than her mind. She alone can create new human creatures. Were it not for her, the race of man would cease to exist. Into her body, as into a chalice, Heaven has put this gift. Her body therefore is inexpressibly precious to man. He is not fulfilled if she does not create. His is the seed, but she alone can bring it to flower and fruit in another being like himself.

the secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. to know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Heaven in its mercy says when a woman is forty, 'Now, poor soul and body, the rest of your life you shall have for yourself. You have divided yourself again and again, and now take what is left and make yourself whole again

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

If we start with that, with wanting girls to see themselves from the inside out rather than outside in , we will go a long way toward helping them find their true happily-ever-afters.

As long as we believe that there is something that will permanently satisfy our hunger for security, suffering is inevitable.

Authentic joy is not a euphoric state or a feeling of being high. Rather, it is a state of appreciation that allows us to participate fully in our lives. We train in rejoicing in the good fortune of self and others.

We already have everything we need.

there's more to liberation than trying to avoid discomfort, more to lasting happiness than pursuing temporary pleasures, temporary relief.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

Obsessing about getting what you want and avoiding what you don't want does not result in happiness.

We can use meditation to reinforce our false beliefs: it will protect us from discomfort; it will fix us; it will fulfill our hopes and remove our fears. This happens because we don't properly understand why we are practicing.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

Keep doing what you like to do. That's all it is.

When you stop wanting something, you get it.

You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.

I'd like to make as much art as I possibly can before I die, so I'm working on a few things.