Quotes About Fulfillment

You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you.

Feeling the Lord magnify me professionally as I sought to serve him solidified my commitment to serve the Lord first. In doing so I learned that I could do more professionally in part of my time with His help than in all of my time without it.

The good news is that when we do the Lord's work in the Lord's way, we are assured of His blessings to help us.

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

He didn't depend so much on the good opinion of others to feel complete. Nor did he expect happiness as his right any longer; he knew it was only for the strong.

If you are miserable and ill, I can understand why you would not want to live a long time. But if you are happy and productive, why not? Why should people have to grow old and die?

Why do you do it?' asked Drusher. 'And don't say "because someone must" or anything like that.' 'Why are you a magos biologis, Drusher, when that calling has apparently given you a life you resent?' 'Because I'm good at it,' said Drusher. 'Yes', said Eisenhorn. 'It's sad, isn't it?

As her husband held her close, she could feel the pulse of other choices, other lives, opening up beneath her. Her past crackled behind her like a terrible lightning, branches and branches, endless, and then nothing.

I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment...this day...is as good as any moment in all eternity.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

I can always feel better, look better, do better. I can learn more, sell more, buy more. I can do more, and do it faster. But what is the price of this perfection? Joy.

I believe in the pursuit of happiness. Not its attainment, nor its final definition, but its pursuit. I believe in the journey, not the arrival;

Natural happiness is what we get when we get what we wanted, and synthetic happiness is what we make when we don't get what we wanted. In our society, we have a strong belief that synthetic happiness is of an inferior kind.

You can't win the race of fulfillment running on the track of achievement.

When you focus on making a meaningful impact on others, money comes faster, more naturally, and with less effort.

A job should not define who or what you are. You should be able to leave today and it not change the overall purpose or direction of your life.

A job should not define who or what you are. You should be able to leave today and it not change the overall purpose or direction of your life. Your calling is a much larger concept than what you do daily to create income. Work opportunities can come and go—the direction of your life should remain constant.

Would it be unreasonable to expect to find fulfilling, enjoyable, spiritually significant, income-producing work?

Work is not a curse of God but one of the benefits of living on this earth. Finding the work you love is not a self-serving goal; it is a required component of fulfilling your true calling.

Money is ultimately never enough compensation for investing one's time and energy. There must be a sense of purpose, meaning, and accomplishment.

Stephen Covey said we all want "to live, to love, to learn and to leave a legacy.

The secret to creating a career that is both nurturing to the soul and the pocketbook is, as theologian Frederick Buechner said, to find where "your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."1 There you will find a job, a career, a business, and a life worth living. We cannot talk ourselves into doing something we do not inherently enjoy, no matter how spiritual that something may appear to those around us.

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life." —Author Unknown

But that raises the question: What would you call your daily activity if you actually enjoyed it? Would it cease to be "work"?