Quotes About Fulfillment

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

The point of our lives is not to get smart or to get rich or even to get happy. The point is to discover God's purposes for us and to make them our own.

To try deliberately for self-actualization is like trying very hard to fall asleep or to have a good time.

What feeds the soul matters as much as what feeds the body.

Happiness is not dependent on happenings, but on relationships in the happenings.

Hey, hör mal zu! Ich habe nicht viel im Leben gelernt. Und dir auch nicht viel beigebracht. Aber eins weiß ich ganz genau: Träume gehen niemals in Erfüllung!

I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense.

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

When the heart is heavy, the hands crave work

We are a generation of young women who were told we could do anything and instead heard that we had to be everything.

I wanna be the girl with the most cake.

I want to be the girl with the most cake.

I really have always wanted to be a parent, and when I hit 36 and had just ended a relationship, I remember thinking how much I still wanted it. But I thought I'd adopt.

Happiness isn't that hard to find, you know. It's everywhere. It's all around us. But it's not something that happens to us. It's something we seek. It's something we pursue.

To search her eyes for happiness and contentment—two things I want for her more than anything else.

I'm saying if you do what you were made to do, then you'll find the peace you've been looking for. You can't work for it, you know. You just have to rest in it. - Birdie

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

The trouble with success is that it's never enough. You always want more.

I am reasonably happy. I didn't find Jesus or anything like that. Part of it is that I just feel that I could go home. I did not feel like that for a long time, but I could go back now.

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

It's a book. It's mine. And it's done.

If we believe that God wants us happy above all else, rather than acknowledging that our role is to serve God, we wrongly believe that God exists to serve us. God becomes a a means to our end: happiness.

Sometimes what we think will make us happy is the opposite of what God wants for us.