Quotes About Fulfillment

Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.

finding your vocation in life is discovering the place '...where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

Don't you love it when a plan comes together?" Carl

To handle the fear of loss, we have to look at what purpose the external person or object serves in our life. What emotional need is being fulfilled? What emotions would arise were we to lose the object or the person? Loss can be anticipated, and we can handle the various fears associated with the sense of loss by disassembling the emotional complexes that they represent, and letting go of the individual component feelings.

But if one's dreams having to come true was the only referendum on whether they were beautiful, or worth dreaming, well then, no one would wish for anything. And that would be so much sadder.

One day reach idealization; after all, it's the journey, not the destination.

He'd paid all his taxes, so that left … you guessed it.

Wanting creates the space in which our highest aspirations come into being.

that's what fantasies are for: they allow you to skip the degradation and head straight to the top.

What's wrong? he said. I'll tell you what's wrong: you're killing us. But I thought that's what you wanted? We did, my mother wept, but not this way. It hadn't occurred to me until that moment, but I seemed to have come full circle. What started as a dodge had inadvertently become my life's work, an irony I never could have appreciated had my extraordinary parents not put me through Princeton.

Walking twenty-five miles, or even running up the stairs and back, suddenly seemed pointless, since without the steps being counted and registered, what use were they?

Nobody dreams of the things he already has.

February 16, 1988 Reasons to live: 1. Christmas 2. The family beach trip 3. Writing a published book 4. Seeing my name in a magazine 5. Watching C. grow bald 6. Ronnie Ruedrich 7. Seeing Amy on TV 8. Other people's books 9. Outliving my enemies 10. Being interviewed by Terry Gross on "Fresh Air

what fantasies are for: they allow you to skip the degradation and head straight to the top.

My sisters and I refuse to feel bad about shopping. And why should we? Obviously we have some hole we're trying to fill, but doesn't everyone? And isn't filling it with berets the size of toilet-seat covers, if not more practical, then at least healthier than filling it with frosting or heroin or unsafe sex with strangers?

You can't brace yourself for famine if you've never known hunger; it is foolish even to try. The most you can do is eat up while you still can, stuffing yourself, shoveling it in with both hands and licking clean the plates, recalling every course in vivid detail.

Respect Joy. Joy is not something that happens instead of something else important; It isn't a waste of time; It is, really, what time was invented for.

Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy — because we will always want to have something else or something more.

Volite cijelim srcem, Budite iznena?eni, Zahvaljujte se i hvalite - Tad ?ete otkriti Ispunjenost svog života.

No existe nada más que el éxito, el resto es invisibilidad.

A todos nos gusta adornar el repaso de la vida propia de aquello que fue luminoso, para morir entre luces y no en la oscuridad del desengaño.

The most miserable people in the world are the people who are selfish and self-centered and who won't do anything for the good of others but only for themselves.  These are the ones who are the furthest from the Kingdom of God.  The Kingdom of God is God's all out answer to man's total needs.  The Kingdom of God is something we live.  We know and experience the Kingdom of God only to the extent that we practice it.

Anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

To eat and drink, and be happy in one's toil: this is the grace of God.