Quotes About Fulfillment

Most successful long-term relationships share similar traits. Having worked closely with hundreds of couples, I've noticed over the years what the really strong ones have in common. They recognize the vital importance of patience and compromise. They possess common values and goals. But perhaps most striking of all, the really solid couples, the ones who seem happiest and most fulfilled, all seem to have dedicated their lives together to some greater purpose.

all the money in the world won't make you happy if what you do with it conflicts with your values.

Money is great to have, but all the money in the world won't make you happy if what you do with it conflicts with your values.

for once in a long time, he felt good. No worries, just possibilities. Endless possibilities.

Well, honey, I'm a sixty-three-year-old fat woman with sore feet, high blood pressure, and the beginnings of diabetes. I know I don't have all that much time left, and I can either spend it moping and complaining about the things I never got to in life, or I can do something I love and help people along the way. I decided to keep plugging 'til I drop.

All you need is some food, a roof over your head, a few brewskies a day, baseball in the summer and football in the fall, a missus to watch over you, and you can be a happy man.

But I think to really be part of something special, you have to find something special in yourself first.

My needs are simple, my salary more than ample.

After a few moments of silence Puller said, "You think he was achieving all of it for his father? Because he never got the chance to do it himself?" Rooney pointed at him. "That's what I believe.

Money is just a means to an end. It shouldn't be the goal.

It would be a tragedy to spend your whole life desperately wanting to be something that you already were all along.

However, in God's timing, He does sovereignly choose to bring a husband and wife together for them to accomplish together what they couldn't have accomplished apart.

Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

Political freedom is great. But personal, social, and emotional freedom—when it becomes an ultimate end—absolutely sucks. It leads to a random, busy life with no discernible direction, no firm foundation, and in which, as Marx put it, all that's solid melts to air. It turns out that freedom isn't an ocean you want to spend your life in. Freedom is a river you want to get across so you can plant yourself on the other side—and fully commit to something.

The superior man is not seeking for fulfillment through work and woman, because he is already full. For him, work and intimacy are opportunities to give his gifts, and be vanished in the bliss of the giving.

Sex and money: the sources of most of our desire and disappointment, our hope and fear.

each moment can become a full expression of your core desire.

If you want real passion, you need a ravisher and a ravishee; otherwise, you just have two buddies who decide to rub genitals in bed.

How can you be more responsible? Not necessarily by doing more work. You become more responsible by knowing your deepest purpose, and then arranging your finances and spiritual life from that knowingness.

Without love, our lives are empty.

But if you don't know your deepest desire, then you can't align your life to it. Everything in your life is dissociated from your core. You go to work, but since it's not connected to your deepest purpose, it is just a job, a way to earn money.

How can you tell if your woman's self-direction is healthy for her? If she becomes more and more full and happy as she pursues her direction, then it is good for her. If she becomes more and more stressed, taut, and emotionally angular, then she is animating excess masculine direction.

It's never going to be over, so stop waiting for the good stuff. As of now, spend a minimum of one hour a day doing whatever you are waiting to do until your finances are more secure, or until the children have grown and left home, or until you have finished your obligations and you feel free to do what you really want to do.