Quotes About Fulfillment

I cannot know when the actual final day of my life will come, but I do know that such a life is a possibility and that I can live my life with the expectation that I will live this long, especially if I take steps to live healthfully and with a deep sense of purpose.

I really don't believe in greatness that is bestowed as a rare gift to a few lucky ones. Rather, I think everyone has greatness inside them. It is really just a matter of persistence - sticking to what you have envisioned until it is a reality. I have a deep conviction that everyone, including you, has been given exactly the right set if gifts to fulfil some magnificent purpose for their lives. Greatness must simply be chosen. And if you choose it, it will happen.

In life, we chase things like money and status, but there things have no lasting value relative to the soul. Only the soul has absolute value, which is why I believe it should be at the center of everyone's life

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LIVING LIFE FOR THE VALUE OF COMPLETION, NOT JUST FOR THE VALUE OF SUCCESS, IS URGENTLY NEEDED FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT.

Happiness does not come only when you get something even greater. It's something you feel when you hope for less and are sufficiently satisfied with what you have now" (104).

I have a deep conviction that everyone, including you, has been given exactly the right set of gifts to fulfill some magnificent purpose for their lives. Greatness must simply be chosen. And if you choose it, it will happen.

Los grandes ojos negros almendrados de su esposa le trajeron al recuerdo sus noches de amor: ¿dónde estaba aquel espíritu saciado, de dicha absoluta, de miles de silenciosas promesas con el que terminaban todas ellas?

When I was your age...I wish I'd known that I already had everything I needed within myself to be happy, instead of looking for happiness at beauty counters.

Spiritual desire is the experience of God's presence in us or it may be the absence of God as well, since a feeling of absence may stimulate a yearning for God. It is the experience of delightful love and fearful emptiness.

As Rahner puts it in another place, the resurrection is "the beginning of the transformation of the world as an ontologically interconnected occurrence."34 The final destiny of the world is not only promised, but already begun. The risen Christ is the "pledge and beginning of the perfect fulfillment of the world." He is the "representative of the new cosmos."35

Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and the omega. An end in itself. —GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ1 Since this may be the only life it is sensible to make it full and alive and rich and satisfying —DENNIS BRUTUS'2

The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

I mention to him that I am fasting, but planning to take a day off. He cautions me to think about this very carefully. "If you take a day off, you'll have a day's guilty pleasure, which won't last long. But if you keep all thirty fasts, imagine how happy you will feel. What an achievement that will be.

There are greater goals in life than material and sensual pleasures

el deber del hombre es ser feliz y si cumple con este deber en un grado ético elevado habrá llevado a cabo su cometido. Esto es del todo suficiente para una vida. ¿Es, además, «valioso»? Pero ¿qué es valioso salvo el conocimiento de la vida para nosotros mismos y el vivir para otro(s)?

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!

You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.

That's what you really need is self-love. That's the answer to a lot of problems.

This history of wanting, Mahabat," Sharif said slowly. "I have learned this much. It is better to want than to have a desire fulfilled. Once it is . . . it has little importance. So it will be for the Emperor.