Quotes About Fulfillment

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kind of falls into place.

Bethany Martin, another Hope College senior, put it like this: If i could have equality and fulfillment with a woman, but I couldn't with a man - then why wouldn't I choose a woman?

But are we not both made for this very thing? If you pluck an apple from a tree, is the tree ruined? If you use a new pen, is it ruined, or is it finally fulfilling the purpose for which it was created?

Hope is never false. One's hopes may not be fulfilled, but that does not mean it was wrong to hope.

It never fails to amaze me how many beautiful young women with so much promise and talent wind

Exciting wasn't turning out obe as easy as she'd thought it would be, but it was definitely worth pursuing.

Life is more than great sex and a nice car." "Well, yeah. But not a lot more.

the only way to live life was to look for the best in every day and make sure I had a part in creating some of it.

Oh," Jake said. "So, this is what you want?" "No," Kate said. "But this is what I've got.

Be prepared for some changes. His voice dropped. It'll be noisy. Maybe dirty. Definitely messy. But I can guarantee you'll be satisfied when it's over.

Sunny's eyes widened at the size of his erection. She'd always thought it was a line of baloney that size didn't matter and it was all in knowing what to do with it.

It wasn't a "Eureka!" kind of moment—it was the slow realization that the parts of me that had been empty were starting to fill up again. Yet, as gradual as this all was, there was one surreal moment that crystallized it for me—one moment where I suddenly understood what Idol meant to people and what it was doing for me.

Write down everything that you accomplished today. Instead of a "to do" list, this is a "done" list. Include everything!

I forgot that the purpose of desire is to draw us forward into living, into what captivates us—not to help us attain a particular career or creative goal or get paid more or even to stay married or find lasting love. I forgot that every major transition requires rediscovering desire; without that, I faltered. I forgot that what I bother about is always my choice and that I must actually choose, instead of looking outside myself for what to do next and then pretending it was my choice.

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?

There were things you could be hungry for besides food.

You're allowed to want to use your education. You're allowed to want to be more than a mother.

Women had made progress - Jo only had to look as far as the television set to see it - but she wondered whether they would ever not try to have it all and do it all and do it all flawlessly. Would the day ever come when simply doing your best would be enough?

You don't think she ever loved your dad?" Shelley shook her head. "I think, for her, it was more like taking a job than falling in love. If you've been bred to marry a rich man and have his babies and basically be decoration, and you have no skills and no idea how to support yourself, how many options do you really have?

Would the day ever come when simply doing your best would be enough?

And remember-no woman ever said, on her deathbed, I wish I'd eaten less cake.

But I'll tell you a secret. You know what boys like? A woman who's happy with herself. Who's not making herself miserable with the Jane Fonda videotapes and complaining all the time about whether this part or that one's too big. And you know what else they like? She leaned in close, whispering into her granddaughter's ear. Good food.

She wondered whether they would ever not try to have it all and do it all and do all of it flawlessly. Would the day ever come when simply doing your best would be enough?" Wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend, aunt, caretaker, career women: Mrs. Everything attempts to cover it all.

She couldn't imagine not being a mother. She was happy and fulfilled. Or, at least, she was happy enough, fulfilled enough.