Quotes About Fulfillment

If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends.

In the Bible there is that which meets every need of man, which answers every mood, which speaks to every heart.

'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

for what is life, a good life, but the accumulation of small pleasures?

May you derive great benefit from engaging in this programme and its invitation to explore how you might be in a wiser and more fulfilling relationship to your 'one wild and precious life.' Jon Kabat-Zinn Boston, Massachusetts December, 2010

If you could double the number of hours that you were truly alive each day then, in effect, you would be doubling your life expectancy.

Relaxation, peace and contentment are the by-products of the work you are doing, not its goal.

the best use of one's life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. Life's value is not its duration but its donation—not how long we live but how fully and how well.1

All Christians are called to develop God-given talents, to make the most of their lives, and to develop to the fullest their God-given gifts and capabilities. But Jesus taught that ambition that centers on the self is wrong.

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.

Life can surprise us, though, in giving us the work we are here to do.

Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

You have never done enough, so long as it is still possible that you have something of value to contribute

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.