Quotes About Fulfillment

And I, who have never thought in terms of a life, think to myself that I could make a life out of this.

That joy in discovering that the right person at the right time can open all the windows and unlock all the doors.

I want to be here with her. I want to be the one who lives up to her hopes.

So there I was, hovering above everything I knew. I had made it somewhere special, and I'd gotten there all on my own. Nobody had given it to me. Nobody had told me to do it. I'd climbed and climbed and climbed, and this was my reward. To watch over the world, and to be alone with myself. That, I found, was what I needed.

Now I just want it to end. I've always wanted the happy ending, but now I'll just settle for the ending.

I realized I would always be missing something. That no matter what I did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed. I had to think about what I wanted, outside the heat of wanting.

I look for that confirmation that if I didn't have you, I'd still be a person someone would want.

And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed.

And you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.

It was, I thought, a simple equation: You find the right person. You do the right things. And from that, everything goes right.

In your heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.

i can't help thinking that 'getting a life' is something only a complete idiot could believe. like you can just drive to a store and get a life. see it in its shiny box and look inside the plastic window and catch a glimpse of yourself in a new life and say, 'wow, i look much happier - i think this is the life i need to get!' take it to the counter, ring it up, put it on your credit card. if getting a life was that easy, we'd be one blissed-out race.

Don't let anyone make you feel like you don't deserve what you want.

This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it's just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.

If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough...

Back to the present. I found you in my locker the next morning. Not you. A photograph. But for a moment, it felt like finding a body, It felt like finding what you I needed to be found.

buoyed not by thrill but by happiness.

As long as we can conjure, who needs anything else? As long as we can agree on the magical lie and be happy, what more is there to ask for?

living life instead of just thinking about it.

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything.

This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it's just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that is how it is, this is how it will be.

the things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.

You are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.

i have to keep reminding myself that this is what i wanted - this is what everybody's supposed to want.