Quotes About Fulfillment

Teddy Roosevelt quote, "Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Being a mother is the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me in my life.

I married the man of my dreams in 1998.

Wie tussen de mensen heeft geleefd, en nog altijd uitkijkt naar een onverwachte gebeurtenis, die heeft niets begrepen en zal nooit iets begrijpen. Hij is rijp voor de Stad: alles moet hem worden aangeboden, alle posten en alle eerbetoon - en dat verklaart de duurzaamheid van die ondermaanse hel.

I just figured that was the life I picked, so I had to make the most of it.

What puts you so in the zone that hours and hours pass and you've barely glanced at the clock? If money were no issue, what is the thing you feel so passionately about that you'd do it for free? What do you care about enough to want to put in the time required to get better and better at it?

I think turning fifty means you want to keep everything you already have, but you also want everything you haven't managed to get yet, too. Before it's too late.

I will always have enough. I will always be enough.

Siobhan's smiled broadened, "Aye, it matters naught where one is born, as long as one discovers where one is truly meant to be." -- The Countess by Claire Delacroix

These are the kinds of regrets all women have, mistakes and missteps, paths not chosen, opportunities gone. Youth gone. Forever. And until I honestly acknowledge how this regret feels, acknowledge that I'm not okay with how some of my life went, it's like having a fake past, and a fake present, which is surely a prescription for a fake future.

What was it all for? Furlong wondered. The work and the constant worry. Getting up in the dark and going to the yard, making the deliveries, one after another, the whole day long, then coming home in the dark and trying to wash the black off himself and sitting into a dinner at the table and falling asleep before waking in the dark to meet a version of the same thing, yet again.

the things which, when added up, amounted to a life.

I got lost in him, and it was the kind of lost that's exactly like being found.

I was aware of doing only a so-so job on the grown-up career front, but I didn't really care, because there were two big exam questions I wanted to be sure I answered fully: the question of art, and the question of love.

Is there a word? A friend, a companion, or maybe just a sharer. What good are words? I mean, I think people often try to find through sex, things that are much easier to find in other ways.

It's a matter of visualizing what you want and then making it happen.

You were born for this. Please stand up and remove all your clothes." "I'm

A whim did not provide a living.

Never lose sight of your wish! And if you want to see the wish fulfilled ... you must choose! No matter how painful the choice may be.

All happiness and all unhappiness ... stems from one having a desire. And that is why mankind will always make their wishes.

Arbeiten und lieben — to work and to love; were these not Freud's measures of success?

a very real danger that such dribbling will engross an entire lifetime.

You are the boss of your knitting and can do what you like; there is no "wrong" in knitting as long as you are pleased with the results.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.