Quotes About Fulfillment

My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.

Als je eenmaal van de bergtop omlaag hebt gekeken, is het moeilijk om tevreden in de vallei te blijven...

To have some real work to do after more than a year of purposeless pottering was like a bracing visit to a cliff-bound coast after lethargic existence on a marshy lowland.

The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it.

Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.

The Gingerbread House has four walls, a roof, a door, a window, and a chimney. It is decorated with many sweet culinary delights on the outside. But on the inside there is nothing—only the bare gingerbread walls. It is not a real house—not until you decide to add a Gingerbread Room. That's when the stories can move in. They will stay in residence for as long as you abstain from taking the first gingerbread bite.

I am happy. I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve. I am happy.

Le succès est peu de choses, auprès d'une conscience en repos.

The person who goes astray from God's wise guidance burdens himself with sorrows and frustrations. In fact, he ends up being a slave to his own desires.

New Testament authors all may have been premillennialists, they may all have been amillennialists, or some may not have had a particular worked-out conviction. But all were oriented to the idea of fulfillment in Christ and then in his people, in both his first and his second comings. This central motif rather than the Millennium as such dominated teaching about the future.

That's why it is good to remind ourselves that in business and in life, the journey, not the destination, is the reward.

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.

Think of happiness as a state of inner liberty. That is exactly what it is. It is never anything else. It will help if you forget the word happiness altogether. Substitute the term inner liberty. It works favorably upon your thinking habits. It connects inner liberty with the genuine meaning of happiness. And that puts you on the right track.

I wanted to walk into the library on Fifth Avenue with the lions sitting outside and be able to look up my name in the card catalog. I wanted those walls to have just one book with my name on it.

I now know the same secret that Michelle does: in order to have it all we can't do it all.

I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter. I'm no longer interested in doing what's expected of me. I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.

The things one wants the most are not things after all.

The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.

Reflect on why you're here. What is your ultimate purpose in life? What do you want to be, do, and have? What do you want to accomplish? What do you want to experience? What possessions do you wish to acquire? What does success look like to you? Make a list of: 30 things you want to do; 30 things you want to have; and 30 things you want to be before you die.

If you really know what you want out of life, it's amazing how opportunities will come to enable you to carry them out.

To me, the satisfaction of the service, well done, is more than anything that any amount of money can give. This you might call is the satisfaction you get for your services towards your own people and country ... But most important of all is to leave a name that my posterity may be proud of.

Our souls find their fulfillment and rest when we walk in obedience to our ultimate calling—to know Jesus and make Him known.

When we say yes to too many other things, we are actually saying no to God. Only God can bring the rest and satisfaction our souls crave.