Quotes About Fulfillment

Waiting until you can afford to live in the style you'd like to become accustomed to is a curse against setting sail for distant horizons.

Life is about more than just maintaining oneself, it is about extending oneself. Otherwise living is only not dying - SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR (1908-1986)

Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.

In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now, having nothing but business---no variety---it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me. I hate to sit down and direct documents, and I hate to stay in this old room by myself.

It's better to HAVE and NOT NEED than to NEED and NOT HAVE.

You cannot always have what you want. Sometimes you get what you need.

If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.

I began to feel an emptiness, a hole that I needed to fill before I died.

Contentment is a state of the heart, not a state of affairs.

If we haven't chosen what we are living for, we're living life by default, acting out the scripts handed to us by family, other people's agendas, and the pressures of circumstances. This is not living as a woman who knows the meaning and purpose of life.

Happiness is getting what we want; contentment is wanting what we get.

The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it.

You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.

If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you.

God may not give us what we want, but in his loving-kindness, he will give us everything we need.

Who looks back with pride at the end of the year (or at the end of their lives) on how much TV they watched, or how many Facebook posts they commented on? Most likely, every moment in your life you remember with fondness and pride took effort…and effort often means stress.

Now when I'm down there blowing you, don't you worry about coming. I want it, baby. I want all of it, your hot spunk down my throat, spilling over my tongue. I wanna taste you for a week. So don't be shy. When you're ready, you come, okay?

Everybody's heart is like a cup. They stumble from place to place and person to person, trying to get them filled. They get cracked, those cups, and even broken. Some people throw them away, thinking that it will stop the pain. Poor fools. Nobody can fill a cup but Almighty God Himself. Nobody.

But he was bent on making that ride, Brody, and if he hadn't gotten himself thrown that day, he'd have done it some other day. What I'm trying to get at here is that folks seem to come into this life with a list of things they need to get done while they're here inscribed on their souls. Old or young, when their work is done, they leave.

Det korteste streif av ekte kjærlighet kan gi næring til et helt liv. Det må vi alltid huske.

Perhaps Beauty, real Beauty, is actually the opposite of feeling inadequate, it's feeling full and accepted and part of the ever-present life refulgent around you.

Because Life is about satisfying your ego, you must ask yourself two questions: Where is your ultimate destination? And, are you content with what it took to arrive there?

Your dreams are your potential. What are your dreams?

I want to find something I've wanted all along Somewhere I belong