Quotes About Fulfillment

I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.

purpose. We have a purpose in this life, and every minute we can make bad choices or good ones. Today I feel I've made a good one." She smiled at the rabbi, who smiled encouragingly back.

And there is something great about knowing that my only job is to be as happy as I can be about my life, and feel as good as I can about myself, and to lead as full and eventful a life as I can, so that it doesn't ever feel like I'm just waiting around for some guy to ask me out. And most importantly, it's good for us all to remember that we don't need to scheme and plot and beg to get someone to ask us out. We're fantastic.

And there is something great about knowing that my only job is to be as happy as I can about my life, and feel as good as I can about myself, and to lead as full and eventful a life as I can...

The beauty is that people often come here for the stretch, and leave with a lot more.

I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving.

Someone else's idea of happiness was a lot easier to attain than a happiness I could not envision and didn't think I deserved.

I do not fear the unknown. I do not even fear death--in the event that I've lived a good life. What I fear is a life of mediocrity.

Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.

For many years a tree might wage a slow and silent warfare against an encumbering wall, without making any visible progress. One day the wall would topple--not because the tree had suddenly laid hold upon some supernormal energy, but because its patient work of self-defense and self release had reached fulfillment. The long-imprisoned tree had freed itself. Nature had had her way.

And so they lived many happy years, and the promised tasks were accomplished. Yet long afterward, when all had passed away into distant memory, there were many who wondered whether King Taran, Queen Eilonwy, and their companions had indeed walked the earth, or whether they had been no more than dreams in a tale set down to beguile children. And, in time, only the bards knew the truth of it.

I suppose it is possible to be all of these things. To sort of fall out of who you are into another, as well as to journey back to some essential sense of self. We only see what we see. He was whatever he needed to be, what we asked him to be. Perhaps there are lives like that—they pour into whatever space we have made ready for them to fill.

Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.

Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.

Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.

The measure of my success is the measure of my happiness.

But more I cannot wish you Than to wish you find your love Your own true love this day.

Somebody, somewhere Wants me and needs me And that's very wonderful to know.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

There must be a tomorrow, because my life overflows today.

was saying. "Yep, I hear tell they can't nobody please her. But I shore would like to find

Maybe knowledge is power, but it ain't nearly as as satisfying as punching some smart ass in the chops.

If money don't buy happiness, what the hell does?

Maybe money can't buy happiness, but it can get you a nice little villa in Tuscany, and that's close enough for me.