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Quotes About Fulfillment

The moment you say yes to acting on your desire is the real beginning.
~ Danielle LaPorte
Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
~ Pierre Corneille
What keeps us from achieving our heart's desires is not anything outside of us, it's the conflict inside.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
~ Bill Vaughan
I believe that the most joyful and intrinsic motivation human beings have for taking any action is the desire to meet our needs and the needs of others.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.
~ Vernon Howard
I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.
~ Allen Iverson
Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.
~ William Butler Yeats
I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
~ Thomas Merton
I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.
~ William Shatner
When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy - this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.
~ Krishna Das
People hunger for more attention. Full attention will be the aphrodisiac of the future.
~ Unknown
If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.
~ Baltasar Gracian
The problem is the way we let our desires stand in the way of our enjoyment of what we already have.
~ Brad Warner
Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
~ Samuel Johnson
Everything I desire is within me.
~ Deepak Chopra
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
~ Simone Weil
I live by the spirit so I don't gratify all them old sinful desires that never satisfy.
~ Lecrae
Lack of desire is the greatest riches.
~ Seneca the Younger
Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
~ John Eldredge
If our mind is pure, our desires get manifested quickly.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar